[exim-dev] [Bug 1117] Implement -L (and other?) command-line…

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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1117




--- Comment #1 from Tony Finch <dot@???> 2011-06-13 23:16:44 ---
Phil Pennock <pdp@???> wrote:
>
> -L tag    Sets  the  identifier  used for syslog.

>
> I'm thinking that changing the logging identifier based upon an untrusted user
> is likely to be annoying, but that there's no major security impact, so perhaps
> limit to trusted users, or admin? Or just root? Feedback welcome.


I think this is an admin privilege, and it only makes sense if Exim is
using syslog...

> Looking over other options we don't have: -Ax is very sendmail-specific,
> choosing a .cf file, so ignore.


Postfix accepts and ignores them.

> -bP and -bh we already use for other meanings
> and -bH matching sendmail's without -bh doing so would be confusing.


Postfix doesn't recognise -bP and ignores -b[hH]

> -Btype    Indicate body type.  [more conte


This gets into 8BITMIME doom territory doesn't it?

> -G        When  accepting  messages  via  the  command line,
>           indicate that they are for relay (gateway) submis-
>           sion.


i.e. the opposite of exim's control=submission acl clause. I think a
"suppress submission mode" for messages submitted on the command line by
trusted users could be useful.

> -qGname Run the jobs in the queue group name once.


Exim doesn't have queue groups, so this doesn't make sense for us. We have
-R and -S.

> -qQ[string] and -Q -- quarantine support.


The closest Exim has to this is the idea of frozen messages, but the
concept is a bit muddled by Exim's double bounce handling. (I have a vague
wishlist item which is to offload undeliverable bounces to an appropriate
postmaster's inbox and never freeze them.)

> -V envid  The indicated envid is passed with the envelope of
>           the message and returned if the message bounces.


This requires support for the DSN SMTP service extension which Exim does
not have.

> -X logfile
>           Log all traffic in and  out  of  sendmail  in  the
>           indicated  logfile  for debugging mailer problems.


This is an alias for -d 2>logfile, roughly....

Tony.


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