Package: esmtp Version: 0.6.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #294119 If you look at bug 405584 you'll see that with some security-conscious MDAs like maildrop esmtp can't currently be used with esmtp, as mail can't be sent to other local users. In fact, I'm rather surprised that esmtp offers maildrop as an MDA: with the default setting for maildrop of "/usr/bin/maildrop", I get a fork-bomb when I try to send from my user (rrt) to root, as root's .mailfilter says to send to "rrt", but since maildrop hasn't changed user to root (it can't, since esmtp isn't setuid root, and of course shouldn't be), it thinks it is root, and so just goes on looping.
An alias for root would avoid this; something like ssmtp's alias mechanism would completely fix it. This may be something I could look into patching if you're willing. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (601, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages esmtp depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libesmtp5 1.0.3-1.1 LibESMTP SMTP client library Versions of packages esmtp recommends: ii esmtp-run 0.6.0-1 User configurable relay-only MTA -- debconf information: * esmtp/username: rrt * esmtp/mda: procmail * esmtp/hostport: 10025 * esmtp/overwriteconfig: true * esmtp/hostname: localhost * esmtp/starttls: disabled -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
