ive got exim as a dropin replacement for sendmail
Exim v 5.4
Gentoo linux 2.6.11-hardened-r15
I want to refer to sendmail in a a perl script Im doing.
ie
my $sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
my $send_to = "blah"
my $subject = "Subject:";
my $to = "To: ".$send_to;
my $emailtext='blah';
open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail") or die "Cannot open $sendmail: $!";
print SENDMAIL $subject;
print SENDMAIL $to;
print SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print SENDMAIL $emailtext;
close(SENDMAIL);
I get
grenada cgi-bin # perl testscript
Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.
grenada cgi-bin #
theres stuff inthe book and wiki about perl within exim but i cant find
anything about accessing exim from perl. I could use one of the ::Mail
modules from cpan but Id prefer (for portability reasons) to use sendmail.
with the
my $sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" i get in exim_panic.log
2006-01-01 14:14:25 1Et3yb-00054G-G3 User 0 set for local_delivery transport
is on the fixed_never_users list - I assume the mail is coming out of the
script with user root (the ID running the script)
ive got this as the first 2 routers
begin routers
system_aliases:
driver = redirect
allow_fail
allow_defer
data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/mail/aliases}}
localuser:
driver = accept
check_local_user
transport = local_delivery
in spite of this in /etc/mail/alaises
# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
root: paul
# operator:
Any clues to what ive missed ?
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p cooper
