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[ILUG] exposing users with qmail

[ILUG] exposing users with qmail

Dave Burke dave at compsoc.com
Tue Dec 19 14:22:48 GMT 2000


Afternoon,

You know the way in your sendmail.cf file, you will have something like...
        DMsomedomain.tld

and if you wanted to do the same in qmail, you just do....
        echo somedomain.tld > /var/qmail/control/defaulthost

Which is nice. But, in your sendmail.cf you also have.....
        CE root

And if you want to the the same with qmail, you can add the following into
your ~root/.bashrc....
        export MAILHOST=server.somedomain.tld	
        export QMAILINJECT=f

And that'll work nicely when your sending mail interactively as root, or 
your have shell scripts running that pick up environmental variables. But, 
it's kind of a yucky way of doing things, I would prefer not to have to 
go mucking around editing my perl scripts that get run by crond just to 
add those two environemental variables.

Is there any clean way of emulating "CE root" with qmail? So that any mail
from root is exposed without having environmental variables set?

Cheers,
Dave   




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