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Date:	Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:23:37 +0800
From:	Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	SmartList and exim
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I got SmartList to work with exim, but I couldn't get it to build
with root privileges over procmail. The problems with
Administrator, understanding setuid, geteuid, and the install
scripts were too much for me.

I have exim piping the mail through a .forward file to a second
procmail binary owned by the user running SmartList. Getting the
exim permissions right has been difficult but it is satisfying to
have a real MTA on cygwin. I'm surprised there hasn't been more
reaction to the getting of exim up on cygwin.

I wonder if a more modern list software like Mailman might just
drop in here, instead of the fiddling with shell scripts this has
involved. 

SmartList is OK, however, so I probably won't pursue that.

Unless the whole lot collapses on me again ;-)

-- 
Greg Matheson                    Teaching: brain surgery
Chinmin College                  with a blunt instrument
                                 
Taiwan Penpals Archive <URL: http://netcity.hinet.net/kurage>

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