always having to change permissions of main.cf

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Alan Hartless <harty83 at gmail.com> [20060307 13:17]:
> So, every so often (getting pretty regular now) I stop receiving messages 
> fetchmail is forwarding.  So I go to my procmail log and see this error:
> sendmail: fatal: open /kolab/etc/postfix/main.cf: Permission denied
> 
> I then have to go and chmod 644 postfix's main.cf and all is working well 
> again.  I've also tried to add user uucd to the group kolab-r.  But somehow, 
> it seems that at some point, kolab decides to overwrite both back to the 
> original state. 

The generated main.cf contains passwords, so it shouldn't be
readable for everyone. Adding whatever user to the kolab-r group
should help, but some programs may drop such privileges.

As a workaround you could use something like nullmailer or ssmtp
(see http://wiki.mutt.org/?LightSMTPagents for alternatives) and let
them talk to port 25 while fetchmail calls their sendmail
incarnation.

Thomas

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