Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:40:24PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:58:47AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote:
> | On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:47:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> | > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote:
>
> | > > 2002-09-13 11:16:16 17pnUm-0003KL-00 Neither the system_aliases
> | > > director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local
> | > > delivery of |/home/majordom/runtime/wrapper majordomo
>
> This shows precisely what the problem is. Neither the director nor
> the transport you configured told exim what uid to setuid() to before
> invoking that program to pipe the mesasge to. (as the log said, in a
> nicely terse manner :-))
>
> The simplest solution is to put the line
> user = majordomo
> on the 'system_aliases' director in your exim.conf. Look in section
> 20 of /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz. Specifically go to line 10524
> and start reading there.
>
Success! Thanks! I think I'll sit down and brush up on exim. Seriously, thank you! I can't believe that guy (in a previous thread) who bitched about how unhelpful you guys are. This wasn't even a debian specific question - I mean, this didn't even get answered on the majordomo mailing list (probably should have posted to exim mailing list first)!
> | > > Is it better than majordomo?
> | >
> | > It's a contentious issue.
> |
> | Perhaps a little less contentious would be: what is people's
> | preferred mailing list management software (and why)? I'd be
> | interested to know. I just went the majordomo route because I'd
> | heard of it previously and thought I'd give it a go. Not exactly a
> | decision based on science, but hey...
>
> I would choose mailman because :
> 1) I like the UI from a user perspective
> 2) I know a bit about the developers and trust them
> 3) I like python (the implementation language)
>
> YMMV :-).
>
Yes, I like perl (majordomo's implementation language).
Thanks again!
Keith
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