On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 10:25:28 +0300, Luc Saffre wrote: > On 5/11/26 04:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Then > > again, maybe just un-blocking *every* MTA's queue directory (among > > the MTAs that have this issue) might end up being the least bad answer. > In my simple mind I understand that Postfix (with a a default config) needs > write access to /var/spool/postfix/ in order to work, > and systemd is very careful about security and therefore gives only the > minimum required write access to monit, and seems to ignore that monit > sometimes sends emails and hence needs write access to /var/spool/postfix/ > It seems to me that the packager of either monit or systemd should add > /var/spool/postfix/ to monit's list of required read-write directories. > > The issue is solved now and I'm happy, but it took me several frustrating > months to get there. So I'd vote +1 for trying to avoid this to future > users.
In that case, I would urge you to file a bug report so the monit maintainer knows there's a problem. I didn't see one already, although <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072946> is pretty close in nature.
