I have exim as my system mailer on my debian box at home. It is suid
root and works fine. On the school system (where I'm not an admin) I
get the following error message if I include any "logwrite" commands
in my filter file :
2001-12-22 22:25:54 16HzGs-0001Mj-00 == dsh8290@exim_qualified_domain
D=userforward defer (-11): error in filter file:
logwrite command not permitted when filter not running as user
With this message, exim is run from procmail which is run through my
.forward file by sendmail. I set "exim_qualified_domain" as the
domain for exim to add to addresses if they are unqualified (since it
isn't the system MTA, just my filter too :-)).
If I run exim with "-bf" and put a message on stdin it shows the
logwrite command succeeding.
I tried making exim suid me (thus it must be run as me, right?) but I
still get the error message in the log. Any suggestions on what I
must do to allow logging in my filter?
Another not related question, can I use exim to add a Lines: header
(if it is not already there) like procmail is doing now?
TIA,
-D
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