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Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA
From: |
Kostas Zorbadelos |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:16:35 +0300 |
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:40:04PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:21, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote:
> > Hi Dimitris.
> > Read the man page of mail.local of GNU Mailutils.
> > The error you described seems to be a problem with seteuid(). You have
> > to run mail.local as root because it needs to set its effective uid to
> > the user it is delivering to. GNU mail.local follows the BSD
> > convention in mail delivery. Sergey and the other developers have done
> > a great job, although in our case I had to create a custom mail.local
> > for our needs. I used the libsieve library though and also many ideas
> > from GNU mail.local plus sendmail mail.local :)
>
> Hello Kosta,
>
> so you've written a mail.local that performs mail delivery for a specific
> user, using sieve, without requiring root privileges? Is it open-source, can
> I find it somewhere?
>
No. Our mail.local is a local delivery agent, which means that it
delivers mail to all user accounts (and is called through the
MTA). This is what a local delivery agent is.
>
> Dimitris
>
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- [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Dimitrios Apostolou, 2006/06/19
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/19
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Dimitrios Apostolou, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Kostas Zorbadelos, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/20
- Re: Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Dimitris Apostolou, 2006/06/20
- Re: Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Dimitrios Apostolou, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/20
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Dimitrios Apostolou, 2006/06/22
- Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/06/24