On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Todd Jagger wrote:
> Ah, so the user would have to be logged in on the machine using some
> sort of local MUA? They couldn't be at home sending mail through the
> machine with Mulberry or PC-Pine or something?
Correct. Mail from Mulberry and PC-Pine comes in via SMTP. There is no
associated user. pipe_as_creator will run the delivery as "exim" because
it was a process running as exim that created the message.
> So is there any way to get a pipe command such as above to run as the
> user submitting the message via TCP/IP?
How is this user to be identified? Don't say "from the sender address",
because that can be forged.
If you are using SMTP authentication, you can arrange for
$authenticated_id to be set after authentication, and you can use that
in a "user" option in the transport. That's the only safe thing I can
think of.
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