Re: [Exim] local delivery via smtp

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: skyper
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] local delivery via smtp
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, skyper wrote:

> In the last 3 days i hardly tried to get exim
> running without any s-flags set.


This is possible, but had disadvantages. See the documentation about
security=unprivileged.

> It allworks fine if exim would create files in
> /var/spool/exim/[input/msglog] with mode=0660 and not with
> 0600.
>
> How can i force exim to create these files with g+rw ?


Set SPOOL_MODE in your Local/Makefile.

> second problem: can i foce exim do make all deliveries (even local)
> trough the smtp server ? (connect to port localhost:25) ?.


Of course you can. Any director or router can send deliveries to any
transport, and you can set up a transport to do that. But if you do
that, messages will just go round and round in circles, unless you've
got some other program listening on port 25.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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