I have a script which accepts input via email. The content drives the update of a news page on my website.

The script runs fine on old colocated server. Slackware, Apache, Qmail.

On the new server my script receives the input okay, but I can't write to files because of permissions issue.

Apparently qmail was performing a little magic (i.e. I didn't set the config, it just happened to work straight out of the box) such that when an email was passed into a perl script the user was set to be the domain user. Thus the script had all the necessary permissions.

With Postfix I am not so lucky. When the email calls the perl script it is running as a different user which does not have permissions to write.

I've been off in the world of Java for a while and more than a bit rusty on the finer points of perl. I would be most appreciative of a clue about where to look to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance, Claude

In reply to Problem writing when running script from Postfix mail to script by Xxaxx

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