Bug 146868
| Summary: | Request for exim to use procmail (when available) like sendmail does | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steven Whitehouse <steve> |
| Component: | exim | Assignee: | David Woodhouse <dwmw2> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | CC: | mattdm, swhiteho |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-09-04 02:54:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you! It isn't a security issue. Its an issue that it would be nice if when you swap between sendmail & exim the two exhibit the same behaviour (by default). Its just a matter of adding the above to the exim default config file so that it will automatically run procmail for those who have a .procmailrc installed. Note that because of the way that this config is written, if the person doesn't have a .procmailrc or procmail isn't installed, this will be ignored and the previous (current behaviour) mail delivery method will continue as normal. This is actually a cut & paste from my exim config file, and its been working for me for the last few years with no trouble. I am sorry, but exim is not part of Fedora Core 5 - assigning to Fedora Extras. Seems sane enough, although people really ought to be encouraged to use Exim filters instead of procmail. File a tested patch against exim/src/configure.default and I'll look at adding it. Please check that mails with 'From ' at the beginning of a line of the _body_ are handled correctly. From foo Added in 4.63-2. The ^From escaping seems to behave incorrectly, so I've removed it. require_files = +${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
should be replaced with
# emulate OR with "if exists"-expansion
require_files = ${local_part}:\
${if exists{/etc/procmailrc}\
{/etc/procmailrc}{${home}/.procmailrc}}:\
+/usr/bin/procmail
To enable use of a system procmailrc (shamelessly stolen from the debian exim
configs)
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Description of problem: The FC3 sendmail default config uses procmail as a local delivery agent. Exim doesn't do this and thus I'm suggesting that something like the following should be added to the exim config so that it will use procmail if its available. You might feel that this is more of an enhancement request, but I've filed it as a bug on the principle of least surprise. # Add to the routers just before the existing localuser router: procmail: driver = accept check_local_user require_files = +${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail no_verify no_expn transport = procmail_transport # Since the above checks for the existance of procmail, it will # fail back to the original behaviour in case of procmail not # being installed # Add to the list of transports procmail_transport: driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d $local_part" return_path_add delivery_date_add envelope_to_add check_string = "From " escape_string = ">From " user = $local_part group = $local_part return_output # I think the above is ok from a security point of view, but I # suggest someone checks what I've suggested here carefully # anyway.