On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:35 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Steve wrote: > > > > > My only confusion is where do I put the symlink. To make matters a > > > > struggle for me I'm dyslexic so please forgive me a little as I'm > > > > struggling to follow this: /home/mail/email/home/mail/email - I see the > > > > same things twice and this locks me up a bit. > > > > > > Exactly as written, the symlink is /home/mail/email/home/mail/email and > > > it points to "/". > > > > > > # mkdir -p /home/mail/email/home/mail > > > # ln -s / /home/mail/email/home/mail/email > > > > > > in the chroot jail, this results in /home/mail/email/private/foo being > > > the same as /private/foo. > > > > > Thank you Viktor. After typing it out I finally *got* it. It's about > > what it looks like resolving from inside the jail. The fix works just > > fine. I no longer get any issues connecting to it and mail flow works. > > > > I can't thank you enough Sir. Sincerely - my most grateful thanks to you > > for taking your time to help me with something trivial. > > Some people will set the link to point to "../.." which makes it "work" > even from outside the jail, but there is not much point. > > Another thing to consider is whether you really need the milter in both > contexts. It sounds like you also have a content filter, and mail is > subjected to milters on both sides of the content filter, it is not > clear this is what you need, though there are plausible use cases for > doing this. > My train of thought is to filter in this order; POSTFIX NATIVE client checks (RATE CONTROL, IP, PTR, RBL, CUSTOM LISTS, HEADER & BODY) PRE-QUEUE CONTENT FILTER (CLAMAV using clamsmtp) PRE-QUEUE CONTENT FILTER (spamass-milter)
The volumes I get will support this on the hardware I have. If I had big volumes I would either need more 'meat', some clustering, both or to change the the pre-queues to after queues. Again - I sincerely thank you for your help. It's basic stuff giving me some gaps here, but I'm determined to learn and happy to get my hands dirty. Steve
