Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 06:38:40PM +0200, Eray Aslan wrote:
>
> > Yet another linux major version about to be released (at rc4 currently)
> > with "nothing fundamentally different".
>
> Speaking of Postfix on Linux, I suffered through trying to get Postfix
> working on Fedora 36 with SELinux enabled, and eventually gave up.
>
> - The Postfix "cdb" driver mmaps tables, but the SELinux policy does not
> have rules to permit this.
IIRC, the LMDB driver uses mmap() for database read access, so it
may be affected by SeLinux as well.
> - I configured "postlog" to log to /var/log/postfix/log (to avoid
> systemd-journald), but again this was blocked.
>
> The default rules cover much too narrow a subset of standard Postfix
> features. If the Fedora/Redhat Postfix maintainers are on this list,
> please try to craft more comprehensive rules.
>
> I had managed to get dovecot to work, after adding an "mmap" rule
> to allow dovecot to read mailbox index files, but for nought, since
> I eventually just turned off SELinux.
Yes, it is better that a platform-specific maintainer takes
care of these issues.
Wietse
