Ben Schmidt wrote: > I've never configured or used exim directly, though surely it handles mail of > mine > that passes through some site somewhere! > > I am investigating using Exim to assist delivering outgoing mail, though. The > mail > server that is installed on the machine in question has some configuration > I'm not > happy with, but I don't have privileges to change it. I don't want to run a > daemon > or listen for connections at all; I can't need root privileges for > installation or > use. Basically I'd like something that can be called with the sendmail > interface, > that will attempt to deliver the message(s) given to it and then terminate. > If it > fails to deliver the message, I'd need some way of discovering this--perhaps > a > bounce message delivered to an mbox file in my home directory. Or perhaps a > warning into an mbox file and leave the message queued for manual retry with > some > later command invocation (not automatic, as I don't want to get into daemons > or > cron jobs or such). > I just tried using exim as an unpriviledges, non-daemon MTA, and it seemed to work. (I need this to set up an automated testsuite for an email transmogrifier.) I have an alternate configuration file that I ask exim to use with "-C $HOME/blah/exim.conf". It tells exim to listen on port 8025, but since I never tell exim to start as a daemon (-bd), I'm not sure if it ever really listens.
With that configuration file, I can still use exim with the sendmail-esque interface. Might still need to wrap it with a shell script to inject the "-C blah/exim.conf". Then, to do the actual delivery, you could run "$HOME/bin/exim -q" every N minutes, from your crontab. The important changes to exim.conf seem to be: --- conf/exim/exim.conf.in 2007-11-16 11:34:53.000000000 +0200 +++ conf/exim/exim.conf.desktop.in 2007-11-16 11:35:07.000000000 +0200 log_selector = +sender_on_delivery +smtp_confirmation message_size_limit = 32M preserve_message_logs = false +exim_user = @userid@ +exim_group = @groupid@ +log_file_path = @localstatedir@/log/exim_%s +spool_directory = @spooldir@/exim +daemon_smtp_port = 8025 begin acl I don't know how you would arrange for failure notification. HTH -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
