On 2024-12-22 Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users <exim-users@lists.exim.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, Marcin Owsiany via Exim-users wrote: >> Would it make sense to write a simple /usr/lib/sendmail shim that >> would simply forward its input to localhost:25 (or to a UNIX socket, >> if Exim could be taught to listen on one, as that would allow it to >> discover UID of the invoking process)?
> Exim supports RFC 1413 - Ident - so can discover the UID over TCP. > Since this is on local host we can require Ident to be enabled. > Listening on a UNIX socket could be useful, > but is sufficiently niche that it would probably best > be kept as a build time option if ever implemented. > I'm assuming that LMTP is not an option in this case ? Good morning, take another look at the problem: We have some piece of software that uses a generic interface to send mail (/usr/sbin/sendmail) and there is breakage if /usr/sbin/sendmail happens to be exim. "Use BSMTP" is not a solution for that. cu Andreas -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## exim-users-unsubscr...@lists.exim.org ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
