Thanks for your help. I was afraid that this was going to be the result. I am going to keep nagging the sysadmins for a solution. They are running a mailserver for students, and if not for anything else it would be in academic interest to find a way to get rid of the spam. So, with a little persuation I really hope that it should work out. And like you pointed out, the changes seem quite reasonable. And - since I am an honourary member of the student organization (being the founder of the organisation) then just *maybe* I am able to put a little pressure behind it ;)
Thanks again, Ronny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Starrenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Newbie: Exim vs tmda-ofmipd? > 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 > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
