{"id":153,"date":"2006-03-23T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/wp_en\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/03\/23\/postfix-error\/"},"modified":"2006-03-23T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T20:06:42","slug":"postfix-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/2006\/03\/23\/postfix-error\/","title":{"rendered":"postfix error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was having an annoying postfix error in my log files: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mail[260] Unhandled response to command STATUS: * NO  Mailbox vulnerable &#8211; directory \/var\/mail must have 1777 protection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the solution: i changed the chmod attributes to 1777! (according to the guys at pine, makers of postfix, it makes no difference! for me it does as it doesn&#8217;t fill up my logfile with entries every 5 minutes!)<\/p>\n<p>fire up that terminal and type:<br \/>\n<code>cd \/var\/<\/code><br \/>\n<code>sudo chmod 1777 mail<\/code><br \/>\ntype in your password and it should work!<\/p>\n<p>update: the only problem: after a &#8220;repair permissions&#8221; you have to do it again! i guess i will have to install a cron job&#8230; stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>update: i used <a href=\"http:\/\/lingon.sourceforge.net\/\">lingon<\/a>, the software that lets you edit cron\/launchd jobs! with the assistant it was easy to set up a job that must be run at a specific time (5:30 am) as root user with the command <code>chmod 1777 \/var\/mail<\/code>. now i only need to wait and see if it really works tonight! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was having an annoying postfix error in my log files: Mail[260] Unhandled response to command STATUS: * NO Mailbox vulnerable &#8211; directory \/var\/mail must have 1777 protection the solution: i changed the chmod attributes to 1777! (according to the guys at pine, makers of postfix, it makes no difference! for me it does as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}