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,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
