On 2011-11-07 at 13:48 -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: > I am using Request Tracker (http://www.bestpractical.com) which has a > mailgate. > > In the past I've just used aliases to pipe the mail to the appropriate > command. Exim doesn't allow that (Or at least it's strongly discouraged.)
It's allowed and it's not discouraged, AFAIK. You need to have pipe_transport defined on the Router which handles /etc/aliases and the transport which that option references should probably choose to set an appropriate user. Myself, I'd create /etc/aliases.rt and then reference that from a custom Router, so that I could use a transport which sets a dedicated user for invoking those commands. The closest I can think of to "discouraged" is that for Mailman integration it's possible to integrate entirely in Exim without needing any aliases file additions, so that's just unneeded extra steps to get things working and folks tend to avoid it. You might be able to do something similar with RT, using condition and/or precondition checks, to reduce things down to just the one Exim Router (and Transport) and not needed extra aliases configuration. -Phil -- ## List details at https://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/
