On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:39:33 GMT, "Ronny Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not controlling Exim at all (I am not able to su or in any other > way do things which need root privileges). Is there any way for me, > being an unprivileged user, to setup Exim to my presonal taste, > without having to beg the sysadms to change the Exim-setup? If you are not able to, or sysadmins will not support you to, make necessary changes to Exim configuration file then you are in a bit of a bind. Actually not being able to change configs generally is going to make using tmda more difficult for you. tmda originally was designed for individual mail on personal machine which user had pretty well most rights. It has extended beyond that to site-wide setups but you still need to be able to change configs - as you have discovered with Pine. Specifically getting back to Exim - you must be able to change the Exim config file. There is no way around that. Having said that the good news is that the changes the mail sysadmins would do will *not* affect the way Exim works for other users and they are reasonable changes. The one thing they may balk at is the untrusted_set_sender (Sendmail -f) option which allows non-Admin users to change the envelope sender address. Most changes they will make relate to user forward setup, the changes will not affect other users. From the point your mail gets to and is processed by your .forward file it's under your control. Also be aware the config changes are different from Exim 3 and Exim 4. Exim 4 (which has been out a long time now) had a significant redesign which results in a changed config file. > So, the first question is how to setup pine to use tmda-sendmail. > According to the documentation I must change the sendmail directive in > pine. So I did, but on startup pine complains that I have settings > that conflicts with the system policies (or something like that). As I said above - unless someone else on list familar with Pine knows trick to get around this. > Outgoing mail from Outlook Express using tmda-ofmipd works fine (I > know it's not a proper smtp server, but Outlook Express seems to be > happy with it, and it inserts tags into my mails as expected. Which understanding your setup more now I would say you stick with. > Is there any other way that I can change how Exim handles the mail > operations via a user specific settings file (like a .eximrc file or > similar). No - sorry. Patrick _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
