* Alan Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030929 13:33]: wrote:

Hey Alan,


> I have been using Exim with dbmail for some months now and am very happy
> with it. Exim and dbmail seems so much easier to configure than anything
> else I have seen.

Cool! Would you happen to be having some step-by-step howto about intergrating
Exim and DBMail?


> You need to set the user permission for the process that will be
> delivering the mail.  In my setup I have dbmail owner set to 'mail'
> and in my exim.conf have the delivery as follows:
> 
> local_delivery:
>   driver = pipe
>   command = "/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>   return_fail_output
>   user = mail
> 
> If you have the dbmail owner set to anything else, just set the
>   user = anything else

;)


> PS Setting the user to nobody would allow the user nobody (such as apache
> or other low level users) to submit mail.

Does that compromise the security? Just a bit lost. Is that bad?



-Wash

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