Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA

[Kostas Zorbadelos]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:40:04PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:21, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote:
> > Hi Dimitris.
> > Read the man page of mail.local of GNU Mailutils.
> > The error you described seems to be a problem with seteuid(). You have
> > to run mail.local as root because it needs to set its effective uid to
> > the user it is delivering to. GNU mail.local follows the BSD
> > convention in mail delivery. Sergey and the other developers have done
> > a great job, although in our case I had to create a custom mail.local
> > for our needs. I used the libsieve library though and also many ideas
> > from GNU mail.local plus sendmail mail.local :)
> 
> Hello Kosta, 
> 
> so you've written a mail.local that performs mail delivery for a specific 
> user, using sieve, without requiring root privileges? Is it open-source, can 
> I find it somewhere?
>

No. Our mail.local is a local delivery agent, which means that it
delivers mail to all user accounts (and is called through the
MTA). This is what a local delivery agent is.

 
> 
> Dimitris
> 

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