Re: MTAs

["Paul Haesler" <paul@phaesler.org>]

> > mail's priviledges so giving mail access to any necessary
> > directories is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues
> > with the permissions of /var/spool/mail/<insert your favourite
> > username here>. Now another question: are there?
> 
> As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by the 'mail' user I do
> not see a problem here.
> 
> Also check /var/spool/mqueue... if also using outgoing e-mail

Well, lets try it shall we:

[paul@marge ~]> cd /usr/sbin
[paul@marge sbin]> su
Password: 
[marge /usr/sbin]# ls -l exim
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     mail       430740 Jun  9 07:21 exim
[marge /usr/sbin]# chmod 2755 exim
[marge /usr/sbin]# ls -l exim
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mail       430740 Jun  9 07:21 exim
[marge /usr/sbin]# exit
exit
[paul@marge sbin]> mail paul
Subject: Test
Does this work?
.
Cc:  
[paul@marge sbin]> 2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 <= 
paul@haesler.dyndns.org U=paul P=local S=327
2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 Unable to get root to set 
uid and gid for local delivery to paul: uid=1000 euid=1000
2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 Unable to get root to set 
uid and gid for local delivery to paul: uid=1000 euid=1000

It appears there is a problem, although arguably in the 
implementation.

Source code anyone?

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