[Users] clam plugin complaining about permissions

Gunther Furtado gunfurtado at gmail.com
Sat Jun 8 14:10:05 CEST 2013


Em 08.06.2013, sábado, Ricardo Mones disse:

> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:14:19 -0300
> Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since about two weeks ago, every time claws checks for new messages
> > it complaints about not having permission to write to a folder in
> > $USER/. The complaints go away when I disable clamAV plugin.
> > 
> > 
> > I am a debian testing user and I am running claws 3.9.1.
> > 
> > The error message is this:
> > 
> > /home/gunther/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000000.mimetmp: lstat() failed:
> > Permission denied. ERROR
> > 
> > Any tips?
> 
>   From plugin description (/Configuration/Plugins.../Clam AntiVirus):
> ,-------
> | Because this plugin communicates with clamd via a
> | socket then there are some minimum requirements to
> | the permissions for your home folder and the
> | .claws-mail folder provided the clamav-daemon is
> | configured to communicate via a unix socket. All
> | users at least need to be given execute permissions
> | on these folders.
> |
> | To avoid changing permissions you could configure
> | the clamav-daemon to communicate via a TCP socket
> | and choose manual configuration for clamd.
> `-------

Thanks!!! has this feature change recently?

> 
>   hth,


Does hth stands for highway to hell as wikipedia suggests? (I really
don't know wht it stands for!)

> -- 
>   Ricardo Mones 
>   ~
>   The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, 
>   Impatience, and Hubris.                                    man perl
> 


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Gunther Furtado
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