Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA

[Kostas Zorbadelos]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:40:59PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:53, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Dimitrios Apostolou <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> The problem is that I want to call it via fetchmail/getmail, not by the MTA, 
> so root privileges is a little too much. Thanks for your answers, I now know 
> that in mailutils there is no tool that does this specific job. 
>

OK, so you need a sieve processor for your account. Have you
tried/seen the program 'sieve' included in mailutils?

> However, would you think it would be worth fixing this behavior in
> mail.local?  
> In particular I see 2 possible solutions: 
> 1) if mail.local already has the effective uid of the user specified on its 
> command line, then it doesn't call setreuid(0,x) since it doesn't need to. 
> 2) A new command line option is implemented which makes mail.local work like 
> procmail. No username should be specified on the command line.
> 
> Am I right? Do you think such changes would be easy to implement?
> 

mail.local is a local delivery agent and its job is exactly to deliver
mail to several user accounts. No functionality modifications should
be made to the program. 

> 
> Dimitris
>

Kostas

PS: by the way procmail is a setuid root executable. If you make
mail.local a setuid root program, it will perform. However this is not
a good thing to do from a security point of view...

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