On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Hugo Haas wrote: > > > root: The person who gets root's mail (also daemons', etc). > > > This userid (on the mailhub) get all mail sent to > > > local adressees with userids less than 10. In other > > > words, she gets mail the system mails to root, daemon, > > > etc. > > > > ooh! I did -NOT- know it did this. Not thinking it had this was my one > > complaint about the package. Can you specify your own MDA (ie procmail) for > > this? > > I'm afraid that you can't do that (well, the first s in ssmtp stands > for simple...). Someone else said you could pipe root's mail to some MDA like procmail or deliver.. If you can't, it would not be a nasty problem to modify the program's source for the task. I think I even know enough C for the job! hehe > > Ugh. Depending on what it needs this for, it could be not good that it > > wants this. Then again, since this thing would probably only run when you > > were on the net, it would be no major pain to just configure it in ip-up.d. > > It is used to write header stuff, to generate the From: line if > RewriteDomain is not specified. > > It is also used to send a HELO command, but this could/should be changed. mmm, okay, then we WOULD want that set in ip-up.d The other issue remaining with the program is that it doesn't do mail queues, and that's one I'm not sure how to handle. I'm sure perl could store messages in a queue and try and send them on demand, even using locks so it'd be re-entrant.. I've written perl that could do this. => This process is simple: The send wrapper: Generate a unique file name (pid.timestamp?) drop a lockfile for the above dump stdin to above locked file send file contents to ssmtp did ssmtp return an error? No: Delete the file and lock Yes: Delete the lock only and exit The runq clone: For each file in queue directory which isn't locked: Lock the file send the file contents to ssmtp did ssmtp return an error? No: Delete the file and lock Yes: Delete the lock only
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