Re: mail2news problem

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've just tried to set up a local mail2news gateway on my
> box - and failed miserably so far. :-)
> 
> 
> I've set up my aliases like this and ran newaliases afterwards:
> 
> =================================================================
> lists.earthdawn:	"| /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire \
> 			Networks Mail2News Gateway dante' \
> 			-n lists.earthdawn"
> =================================================================
> (this is one line in /etc/aliases - no use of "\" anywhere)
> 
> 
> I get this error for every message that should go to the group:
> 
> =================================================================
> 1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 <= thomas@visionaire.ping.de
> U=thomas P=local S=310
> 1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 Neither the system_aliases
> director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery
> of | /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire Networks Mail2News Gateway
> dante' -n lists.earthdawn
> =================================================================

Ok, if you look in the /etc/exim.conf file you will see a line in the
system_aliases director where there is a user = that is commented out.
Uncomment that and make that the name of the user that you want to run
piped commands as. There is no default.