Re: [bug-mailutils] sieve MDA

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:21, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote:
> Hi Dimitris.
> Read the man page of mail.local of GNU Mailutils.
> The error you described seems to be a problem with seteuid(). You have
> to run mail.local as root because it needs to set its effective uid to
> the user it is delivering to. GNU mail.local follows the BSD
> convention in mail delivery. Sergey and the other developers have done
> a great job, although in our case I had to create a custom mail.local
> for our needs. I used the libsieve library though and also many ideas
> from GNU mail.local plus sendmail mail.local :)

Hello Kosta, 

so you've written a mail.local that performs mail delivery for a specific 
user, using sieve, without requiring root privileges? Is it open-source, can 
I find it somewhere?


Dimitris