On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Hugo Haas wrote: > > > root: The person who gets root's mail (also daemons', etc). > > > This userid (on the mailhub) get all mail sent to > > > local adressees with userids less than 10. In other > > > words, she gets mail the system mails to root, daemon, > > > etc. > > > > ooh! I did -NOT- know it did this. Not thinking it had this was my one > > complaint about the package. Can you specify your own MDA (ie procmail) for > > this? > > I'm afraid that you can't do that (well, the first s in ssmtp stands > for simple...).
Someone else said you could pipe root's mail to some MDA like procmail or
deliver.. If you can't, it would not be a nasty problem to modify the
program's source for the task. I think I even know enough C for the job!
hehe
> > Ugh. Depending on what it needs this for, it could be not good that it
> > wants this. Then again, since this thing would probably only run when you
> > were on the net, it would be no major pain to just configure it in ip-up.d.
>
> It is used to write header stuff, to generate the From: line if
> RewriteDomain is not specified.
>
> It is also used to send a HELO command, but this could/should be changed.
mmm, okay, then we WOULD want that set in ip-up.d
The other issue remaining with the program is that it doesn't do mail
queues, and that's one I'm not sure how to handle. I'm sure perl could
store messages in a queue and try and send them on demand, even using locks
so it'd be re-entrant.. I've written perl that could do this. =>
This process is simple:
The send wrapper:
Generate a unique file name (pid.timestamp?)
drop a lockfile for the above
dump stdin to above locked file
send file contents to ssmtp
did ssmtp return an error?
No: Delete the file and lock
Yes: Delete the lock only and exit
The runq clone:
For each file in queue directory which isn't locked:
Lock the file
send the file contents to ssmtp
did ssmtp return an error?
No: Delete the file and lock
Yes: Delete the lock only
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