On 22 Mar 2003, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:04, Marilyn Davis wrote: > > I'm still pulling out my hair on this one, and a hairless woman is not > > a pretty thing. > > Oh, I don't know about that... > > http://go.sciflicks.com/artists/p/persis_khambatta_star_trek_the_motion_picture.jpg > > :)
Yeh, well she shaved her head, I pull my hair out in clumps. If this goes on much longer, it'll look the same and I'll be that pretty? > > I figured out that the SMTPDirect thing was going straight out a port > > rather than piping to exim. This is a standalone machine for > > development and testing. > > This is true. SMTPDirect sends messages over port 25 via the smtplib > module. Still, if you're running your Exim as a daemon, it should be > possible to configure it to accept only localhost port 25 connections. > That's what I'd recommend anyway. I went back to SMTPDirect and set exim to collect over port 25 but nothing changed. > > > So, in my mm_cfg.py I put: > > > > DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' > > > > but it didn't fix it. > > Are you sure SENDMAIL_CMD points to the right executable? Absolutely. I can run the mail through using that command. > > > How can I get it to use sendmail (linked to exim) instead of the > > SMTPDirect module? > > They way you're doing it is the only way, and it ought to work, but you > should be aware of the security issues. This delivery module goes > through the shell so you have quoting issues and the like to worry > about. It's hard to care about security on a standalone test machine. I'm missing something because when I do the Sendmail thing, it still gets the same error in the smtp log, so I guess it's still doing the same thing. I'm going to get the debugger going next. Thank you for your thoughts on this Barry. I know you're too busy. Marilyn > > There have been some ideas to fix this. What I'd like to see is > Sendmail.py fixed to not use the shell, and for smtplib.py to be able to > talk SMTP over stdin/stdout. But I have no time to work on these > things. > > -Barry > > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
