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UUCP_MAILER_USER (sendmail,uucp)

Abstract

The document describes how to make sendmail's uucp mailer support UUCP_MAILER_USER. It allows to specify user and group used by sendmail to execute uux program.

It should allow installing uux without set uucp uid.


Copyright (c) 2004 Andrzej Filip

Usage

To make sendmail execute uux as user uucp group uucp use:
define(`UUCP_MAILER_USER',`uucp:uucp')dnl
MAILER(`uucp')

Install

  1. Apply the patch (the gpg signature) - in main directory of sendmail distribtion execute

    patch -p1 < uucp-user.patch
    
  2. Recompile sendmail.cf (no need for sendmail binary recompilation)

Additional