Re: using Sendmail from an non-privileged user

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.comREMOVE)
Date: 12/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:55:00 GMT

In article <vutcnknjl3qj7a@corp.supernews.com>,
bill drescher <nobody@Spamcop.net> wrote:
>Tony Lawrence wrote:
>> bill drescher <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Tony Lawrence wrote:

>>>>bill drescher <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote:

>>>>>>>I have a system that uses /usr/lib/sendmail -t to send messages
>>>>>>>generated by a program running on a user account. Works fine.

>>>>Some reason why you aren't just using mail or mutt?

>>>>http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#mailxmutt

>>>haven't explored mutt as sendmail does the job (usually).
>>>I don't think I can send a BCC using mail.

>> You can send anything you like using Mutt.

>Tony,
>Assuming sendmail works as it should (big assumption), would you please
>tell me why would I want to install and learn mutt, in addition to my
>other responsibilities

I'm not Tony but let me drop in here a moment.

Mail systems are divided into three parts, MTA, MSA, MUA

MTA - Mail Transport Agent - sendmail and other transport devices
        used to get transport mail from one system to another

MSA - Mail Submission Agent - send the mail to the MTA

MUA - Mail User Agent - the interface to mail that the users
        have - mutt, pine, Outlook, whatever.

Mutt handles both the MUA and MSA parts.

Tony points out that not all places allow direct access to
sendmail. And since sendmail is ubiquitous some systems ship with
wrappers so that all programs which by default use sendmail, use
the MTA on the system as dictated by the wrapper, so that even if
you call sendmail another MTA is used.

On different lists I've seen requests from people along the line
of "how do I create an attachment in sendmail" and someone
invariable comes up with a uuencode sent to sendmail, but using
user agents to do all the grunt work is far easier.

Using Mutt should make your life easier.

Bill 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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