On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:43:17PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >There you go. Unless you quote the argument to "to", it is evaluated. > >!rrt means 'not string', and that means 0. That's why maildrop said that > >it delivered to 0. > > Thanks. However, this only cures the side note about mail seemingly > disappearing altogether, not the main part of the original report about > mailfilter failing to change to uid 0 when run as root. Running mailfilter > directly is not the problem, running it with -d root as root is.
You said: > if I setuid it it refuses to work (which is fine given current policy, but > doesn't help me to get maildrop to work with esmtp). Well, it should work if esmtp runs it as one of the so-called trusted users. The compiled-in default includes: root mail daemon. What does esmtp run it as? Also, the most straightforward way to avoid the trusted user requirement is to avoid the -d option (and avoid setuid, too). You can do that if you can tell esmtp to change the environment for you. For example the way Postfix does it: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_command Exim can also do it: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.63/doc/html/spec_html/ch23.html -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
