First, I'm *really* pleased with Exim 1.59 - I'm running it on my
primary multi-user system. It dropped in as a complete replacement for
sendmail 8.6.13+IDA without any hassles (other than mistakes I made in
configuring) at all.
In fact, that's why I chose exim over qmail - that my users didn't have
to change anything - and since I was going to have to re-do my configs
anyway to upgrade my mailer, replacing sendmail with exim seemed "the
thing to do".
I've found two problems when I tried to implement exim on another
host, however:
(1) If an alias expansion from a file has a comma in the comment - ie
joe@??? (Doakes, Joe)
ejaufman@??? (Edwin L. Jaufman, Jr)
Exim complains and holds the list distribution up. Exim also complains
in -bt because of these.
Given that these are user-provided, I'm not sure I can count on my
users to remove the commas.
(2) A bigger problem was majordomo. Not only did commas in the names
provided by subscribers cause exim to burp, but when I tried to do a
test mailing to a majordomo process I got this:
news$
/usr/local/lib/exim/exim -f doug@??? majordomo
Subject: help
From: doug@???
help
<ctl-d>
news$
1997-01-28 10:33:41 0vpFXI-00063E-00 Neither the system_aliases director no
r the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/export/home/major
dom/wrapper majordomo
What did I miss ? What do I do ? The "wrapper" program that the majordomo
aliases run is setuid to set up the proper permissions for majordomo to
run, so that's not a problem.
Thanks in advance, Doug
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