On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Gaute Amundsen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, that could hardly be much of a problem in this case?
> As long as there is only me and the daemons, and nobody else expects their
> mail to go out. After all I have not missed a mta on this laptop for years..
>
> Actually I had just naively set a+wr on the mbox, but setuid might be better
> yes :)
So long as you are willing to configure your mailbox mode 0666, sure,
your python script may work (given a locking scheme compatible with
the mail reader). Otherwise, Sendmail (not too new, so that local
submission is not punted to a loopback SMTP server) is not a bad bet.
--
Viktor.
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