On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:45:59PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Package: maildrop > Version: 2.0.2-11 > Severity: normal > > I was using maildrop as the MDA with esmtp-run. In this configuration > it's set up to run as "/usr/bin/maildrop -d %T", and %T is the local > part of the address. > > This fails when I try to send mail to root, complaining that it can't > change user, which is not a surprise, as it's only setgid mail, not > setuid root. > > If I use procmail instead of maildrop I don't get this problem. If I > drop the "-d %T" in esmtp's configuration, then mail from root > (whether to root or another user) goes AWOL with no messages and no > record that I can discover, while mail from a non-root user to root > works fine.
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