[Mailman-Developers] 8bit and NNTP gateway

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:00:22 -0400 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:38, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> Exim alas does not fall in that camp, and I need to use Exim as
>> versus Postfix due to the fine grained control it offers over
>> executing UID/GID for filters.  Sendmail and QMail are not a
>> reasonable consideration for this case.

> Out of curiosity could you elaborate on UID/GID constraints which
> prevent you from using a postfix/mailman combination?

While things have moved on slightly, the details are still pretty
similar to the details I posted to the User FAQ a few years back (see
the stuff about TMDA etc).  Essentially I run a moderately complex
filter system in front of Mailman and various other accounts which
requires explicitly defining and controlling the UID and GID as well as
the assumed environment (${HOME}, shell context etc) that procmail and
other scripts are executed under.  Commonly that UID/GID is not an
obvious function of the LHS of the address, but rather an arbitrary
special case mapping.  I can reach the same end under Postfix as of last
I checked via vhosts and maps, but that would require also changing my
MX and address architecture which I'm not prepared to do.

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