At 01:18 PM 11/1/00, Allan Newsome wrote:
>One thing I don't think most of you picked up on is that I am the
>owner of the list and I run the list but I do not own the servers the
>list runs on so I don't have root access to be able to install and run
>Demime.
That's a problem. Perhaps the owner of the system would agree to do
it if you pointed out that NOT distributing thousands of bulky HTML
files to the entire list would really help system performance!
>Am I miss understanding or can users with ftp access to their
>cgi-bin use Demime? I don't think I/they can....let me know if I'm wrong.
You need to be able to run demime SOMEWHERE, not necessarily on the
same system as the server. Do you have access to email aliases?
Can you change the ones used by your list server? If so, change the
server and list posting aliases to point at addresses that can run
demime, on the same host or not, then have that address pipe its
output to another alias that feeds the server software.
Did that make sense? Here's a sample sendmail alias for Mj2,
probably the details are different for 1.9x or other software:
majordomo: "|/usr/local/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/demime/demime.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
lists: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue -m -d XXX.org"
Sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" runs demime, demime sends mail to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where it is processed for server commands. Note that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] could point to an address on another host, and THAT
address could run demime and send results back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
