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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 23:49:07 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, "Isaac Mushinsky" <imush@mail.ru>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: sendmail and local delivery with mail.local
Message-ID:  <002e01c0e742$4ab668a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010528091652.B30532@itouchnz.itouch>

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Some sites have modified versions of mail.local that deliver
local mail to hashed directories and the like.  lmtp does
not work for them.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathan Chen
>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 2:17 PM
>To: Isaac Mushinsky
>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: sendmail and local delivery with mail.local
>
>
>On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:57:30AM -0400, Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
>> How is it possible to use mail.local without suid?
>> mail.local now installs without set uid. However, it refuses to 
>handle my 
>> local delivery. I tried this and that, and turned suid back on 
>in despair for 
>> now. However, please let me know the right way of doing it.
>
>You'll have to change the `Mlocal' flags in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. If
>you use mc files, have a look at /etc/freebsd.mc. There's a
>FEATURE(local_lmtp) that needs to be added.
>
>Cheers.
>-- 
>Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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