Re: Sendmail with deliver, procmail, or mailagent?
netgod and I are concerned about the possiblity of adding an extra script
between sendmail and procmail/deliver may introduce an additional point of
failure and possible mail loss between sendmail and the MDA (when the
process table is full for instance). But if all we need to worry about is
procmail and deliver, it seems that making them aware of sendmail is good
enough.
On 7 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Auugh. Don't do that. I'd prefer the wrapper script option,
> which does not require any changes to sendmail.cf. That is a more
> robust solution. All competing mail delivaery agents shall need to do
> is provide a correct /usr/sbin/mda wrapper script, through update
> alternatives, or such.
>
> One the script is in place, sendmail can use it. At no time is
> sendmail broken.
>
> Also, mailagent is not a mail delivery agent, (it should not
> be run suid anything, required on debian to deliver mail, since it
> allows for arbitary Perl escapes). It is a mail filtering system. (do
> one thing, but do it well ;-)
>
> manoj
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>"Fabrizio" == Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi> writes:
> Fabrizio> sendmail.cf:
> >> A=/usr/sbin/mda $g $h $u
>
> Fabrizio> and deliver's mda :
> >> #! /bin/sh
> >> deliver -r $1 $3
>
> Fabrizio> while procmail's mda:
> >> #! /bin/sh
> >> procmail -Y -a $2 -d $3
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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