[MPlayer-dev-eng] mailing list changes on mphq (again)

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 01 May 2002, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > after a day of rtfming and trial-and-fix-and-hacking i ended up with
> > > sendmail running at port 25 to handle incoming mails (qmail doens't work
> > > with mailman, due to access right limitations) and qmail at 26 to send
> > > outgoing mails to list members. it's ugly but seems to finally work...
> > 
> > As far as I remember, somewhere I've seen some dox about the cooperation
> > between qmail and mailman.
> 
> yes, i've read it, too
> it sugegst a big mess with UID and GID numbers to get same for mailman and
> qmail, and recompilation of mailman with some nonstd options etc...
> i've tried it, partially, but didn't work
> qmail runs as user with very limited permissions, while mailman assumes
> it's started by root (as sendmail does) and wants to change its uid runtime

If qmail was so much trouble, why do you use it? Why not just switch
to postfix? It's much faster than sendmail (and at least as fast as qmail),
has all the features you should need, and it's 99.9% sendmail-compatible.
 
-- 
"The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
        -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows"
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>