Perhaps there's a setuid root binary at /usr/bin/sendmail
or /usr/lib/sendmail that belongs to exim?
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:57 +0530, Lasantha Marian wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> I have tried several options.
>
> On your lead, tried using Exim's trusted_users and trusted_groups to
> include dbmail/dbmail as user and group combination. Then DBMail
> started reporting an error in dbmail.err log indicating the following,
> giving the old result of not delivering the messages.
>
> 2007-05-29 10:10:40 Failed to create spool
> file /var/spool/Exim/outgoing/input/1HstVg-0001wn-5P-D: Permission
> denied
>
> This does not look like an error generated by DBMail, possibly
> generated by Exim but logged by DBMail.
>
> Then I've changed to "EFFECTIVE_GROUP = exim" while having
> "EFFECTIVE_USER = dbmail", still reported the same error. Then I've
> changed the group privileges of the spool directories as chmod g
> +rws /var/spool/Exim/outgoing/{input,msglog}, which made the
> deliveries to dbmail-lmtpd successful. :-)
>
> I am yet not fully satisfied, there are other Exim compilation options
> (EXIMDB_DIRECTORY_MODE, EXIMDB_MODE, INPUT_DIRECTORY_MODE,
> SPOOL_DIRECTORY_MODE, SPOOL_MODE) which I should try. Though I do not
> plan immediately, when I try these options, will keep you updated.
> However, for the time being, I will be using exim/exim user and group
> combination.
>
> Thanks for all the help offered.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Lasantha.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:
> [Dbmail] Re: What should be the
> EFFECTIVE_USER and it's
> privileges ?
> Date:
> Tue, 29/May/2007 8:31:44 AM +0550
> From:
> Lasantha Marian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> DBMail mailinglist
> <[email protected]>
>
> > Dear Aaron,
> >
> > Yes I do agree with you on separate users for Exim and DBMail. I
> > will work on it and come back to you.
> >
> > Lasantha.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:
> > [Dbmail] Re: What should be the
> > EFFECTIVE_USER and it's
> > privileges ?
> > Date:
> > Mon, 28/May/2007 9:47:46 PM +0550
> > From:
> > Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To:
> > DBMail mailinglist
> > <[email protected]>
> >
> > > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 16:58 +0530, Lasantha Marian wrote:
> > >
> > > > /usr/local/Exim/bin/exim -C /usr/local/Exim/etc/exim-queue.conf
> > > >
> > >
> > > I thought about this some more, and I don't think this is correct.
> > > Doesn't exim have a sendmail emulator? This chapter looks relevant:
> > >
> > > http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch05.html
> > >
> > > If you don't mind playing with your configuration a little bit more, I
> > > think it will be preferable to have DBMail and Exim running as separate
> > > users.
> > >
> > > Aaron
> > >
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