Is SELinux blocking all forward-only mail agents? (esmtp/ssmtp)
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Dec 12 10:18:52 UTC 2008
NM wrote:
> I didn't want to have a full-fledged MTA on my machines; I tried both
> esmtp and ssmtp, and both seem unable to work without tripping on
> SELinux. It looks like they always inherit the context of the calling
> program, which doesn't have the rights to, say, connect outside on port
> 25.
>
> Is there a way?
Long term, policy for this type of forwarder would need to be written.
Short term, you could try re-using the sendmail policy:
e.g.
# chcon -t sendmail_exec_t /path/to/ssmtp
See if that helps.
Paul.
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