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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-07-07 18:31:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-07 11:50:29 +0100 |
| commit | 8d1df82daef7cecd399329312d14e76bd648381c (patch) | |
| tree | f00a72534406222b8e312255ca1fc1fb5d2ef428 /docs/installing | |
| parent | 9d02a4277cca1e896f5a2c6e79bf645f0f8d5bf3 (diff) | |
Get rid of ALAVETELI_USER and ALAVETELI_HOME
It's not clear whether they are actual variables (they aren't).
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/installing')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/email.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index a7e1693de..fb8ce8a29 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -30,12 +30,15 @@ Install postfix. In the install options, select the default configuration `Internet Site` and set the hostname to your sitename. -In `/etc/postfix/master.cf`: +Now configure Postfix. For example, if the Unix user that is going to +run your site is `www-data`, and the directory where Alaveteli is installed is +`/var/www/alaveteli`, add the following line to +`/etc/postfix/master.cf`: alaveteli unix - n n - 50 pipe - flags=R user=ALAVETELI_USER argv=ALAVETELI_HOME/script/mailin + flags=R user=www-data argv=/var/www/alaveteli/script/mailin -The user ALAVETELI_USER should have write permissions on ALAVETELI_HOME. +The Unix user should have write permissions on the directory where Alaveteli is installed. In `/etc/postfix/main.cf`: |