Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Paul J Stevens wrote: >> Access to /bin/sh is required for opening a pipe (3). Of course we could >> redesign the forwarding and notification code to use smtp for sending >> messages, but that seems like a bit of overkill at the moment. > > The lmtpd code can't be extended for that task? The shouldn't be a big > difference I think? But that's not too important yes.
Outgoing SMTP is a very different game than any incoming protocol. We don't have any sort of framework yet for an outgoing protocol handler, although they aren't terribly hard to write, it means sitting down to do it. We would also be getting into issues of relaying mail (although that shouldn't be any more difficult to configure than making sure that /usr/bin/sendmail is configured to send mail). Once upon a time, Eelco and Roel were against a config file because they wanted to be able to run DBMail without privileges to read or write from disk at all. A laudable goal, and perhaps one we should keep in mind to some extent. Aaron
