Will you please help me know why you need to integrate Exim and DBMail? I have not yet started playing around with DBMail but I thought it was complete Mail system by itself!!! Why does it need Exim?
Thanks Emery ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odhiambo Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:53 Subject: Re: [Dbmail] exim+dbmail > * Alan Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030929 13:33]: wrote: > > Hey Alan, > > > > I have been using Exim with dbmail for some months now and am very happy > > with it. Exim and dbmail seems so much easier to configure than anything > > else I have seen. > > Cool! Would you happen to be having some step-by-step howto about intergrating > Exim and DBMail? > > > > You need to set the user permission for the process that will be > > delivering the mail. In my setup I have dbmail owner set to 'mail' > > and in my exim.conf have the delivery as follows: > > > > local_delivery: > > driver = pipe > > command = "/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > return_fail_output > > user = mail > > > > If you have the dbmail owner set to anything else, just set the > > user = anything else > > ;) > > > > PS Setting the user to nobody would allow the user nobody (such as apache > > or other low level users) to submit mail. > > Does that compromise the security? Just a bit lost. Is that bad? > > > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The box said 'Requires > Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' > Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." > GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) > > Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance. > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >
