solved, was Re: arrgh! "smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use procmail -f-"

[Max Blanco]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Well Debian tends to run exim (which is simpler to configure by far, has
> had less security holes, among other things), so it isn't too surprising
> that a package like procmail doesn't put much effort into making
> sendmail do things.  Would you really want a package arbitrarily
> changing your sendmail config?

No.  I would expect it to ask first.  The sendmail package does that 
already; I don't see why procmail couldn't check the sendmail.mc and, if 
it needed changing, ask nicely.  dselect has an option for that called 
"[C]onfig".  8)

> exim comes preconfigured to use procmail if installed.

I think that mailer that uses "Maildir" format instead of "mbox"...

thanks,
max.


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