On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:34:31PM +0100, Gaute Amundsen wrote:
> How about this?
> Even more off topic!
>
> But so far this seems to work for me.
> Kmail "could not write lockfile" when reading the mbox, but "FCNTL" worked,
> whatever that means :)
> Considerable room for improvement I'm sure, but in principle?
>
> Suggestions welcome :)
>
> Gaute
>
> /usr/bin/sendmail:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import mailbox
> import sys
> import email
> from time import gmtime, strftime
>
> mbox = mailbox.mbox('/var/mail/root', factory=None, create=True)
>
> msg = email.message_from_file(sys.stdin)
> msg['From'] = 'r...@localhost'
> msg['Date']= strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())
The problem is that users other than the owner of the mailbox may
need to send mail... So you need either a setuid sendmail(1) or
a system like Postfix with multiple processes at different privilege
levels and IPC between them.
--
Viktor.
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