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Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:28:59 +0300

Dimitrios Apostolou <address@hidden> wrote:

> The problem is that I want to call it via fetchmail/getmail, not by
> the MTA,

Then all you need is sieve.

> 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.

Technically, there will be no problem implementing these changes. But,
in my opinion, the changes are useless, given that mail.local is a
*delivery* agent, and what you need could be done by simply using
sieve. Or am I missing something? 

Regards,
Sergey




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