Re: majordomo and exim
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> I ended up having so much trouble that I switched to sendmail. I
> received a message that the latest exim now understands -ooe .
you mean -oee ? That means that any errors are forwarded to
the sender (seems like it means the address in "Sender:" header).
> There were many other problems, and I didn't need to find out how
> many. I am giving up. If anyone wants a more detailed list of what I've
> found so far, let me know.
>
> 1. when including an address file, exim wants commas for
> separators. majordomo uses none.
Didnb't experience it.
> 2. exim wants a gid and uid to run 'custom' delivery processes,
> such as majordomo. You could use the 'local_part' variable, but this is
> 'majordomo' which is an alias for a pipe to a process, and not 'majordom'
> which is the user name with a gid and uid . I don't know a robust way to
> fixthis, but its probably easy.
.../majordom/wrapper must be installed setuid root. So it doesn't
matter what uid you give it, I just uncommented the default "user =
exim".
> 3. All of the sendmail flags in the standard majordomo config
> file broke exim, so I simply removed them.
Well, when I install majordomo to the end, I'll tell you what problems
were there.
Vadik.
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