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[Izak Burger]

Roché Compaan wrote:
> This is not really a Postfix problem but an Apache one. 

Agreed, but let me phrase it differently.  Not being able to set the 
umask can be seen as a postfix problem (compared to exim which can set 
it), but in this case it isn't really postfix's job to solve the problem 
created by another program so my criticism doesn't really apply :-)

> That aside, I really don't like the fact that CGI's under Apache can't
> run as a different user - it's damn frustrating and causes stupid
> permission settings that is simply not secure. Hence we run roundup
> server - maybe it's time to do a proper benchmark to see if the
> mod_python version is really faster than roundup server.

The setup I tried earlier was to use apache in a setup similar to a 
mod_python setup, but instead of passing the dynamic queries to 
mod_python, I proxy them through to roundup-server.  Performance should 
be very similar as far as I can see, I really just replaced the part 
that does the actual python interpretation.  I think mod_python might 
still win because of the overhead of an additional tcp connection when 
proxying from apache to the backend roundup-server, but perhaps the 
advantages to be had because of the improved security might make it 
worth it.

regards,
Izak