Re: Happy, but...

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Doug Sewell
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: Happy, but...
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Doug Sewell wrote:

> 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.


Thank you.

> (1) If an alias expansion from a file has a comma in the comment - ie
>
> joe@??? (Doakes, Joe)
> ejaufman@??? (Edwin L. Jaufman, Jr)


Oops. That looks very like a bug. I'll investigate and fix for the next
release.

> (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:


John Henders has provided the answer to this I think. As exim always
runs local deliveries in a separate process that uses setuid() to become
unprivileged, it must be given (somehow) the uid to use.

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