No answers: reposting

[Roberto Lo Giacco <rl...@smartlab.net>]

Can someone tell me if:
- Can I replace sendmail with James on my Linux box?
- Can I use system accounts as mail accounts?
- Can you tell me what contribute is needed to get this functionalities?

For any misunderstood please refer to my previous email "Begging your pardon".

RE: No answers: reposting

[Danny Angus <da...@thought.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto Lo Giacco [mailto:rlogiacco@smartlab.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:52 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: Re: No answers: reposting
>
>
> > 1/ would need a replacement for /usr/bin/sendmail which would send mail
> via
> > localhost 25, or insert mail into james' spool
> > localusers would have to collect mail via POP3 on localhost 110
> instead of
> > getting it delivered into a mail file.
> 1.1) A simple java program (using the same parameters of
> /usr/bin/sendmail)
> wrapped by a shell script would solve the problem?

possibly

> 1.2) Allowing James to use the same file format of sendmail isn't
> already a
> work in progress? Anyway I don't need my users to access the Linux Box
> directly, if they want to read their mails they sould use their
> own clients
> (win95/2K)

the fileformat thing has been mooted, but n-one has taken it on

> > 2/ is a little trickier, and making james snarf users from /etc/passwd
> would
> > probably be the quick and dirty route
> 2) Would you like a UserStore implementation which interfaces to the
> /etc/passwd file or something else?

Yes, it'd probably be a useful thing

>
> My questions are posted because I would share my solution with the project
> and I wish to contribute in a positive way...
>
> Roberto
>
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Re: No answers: reposting

[Roberto Lo Giacco <rl...@smartlab.net>]

> 1/ would need a replacement for /usr/bin/sendmail which would send mail
via
> localhost 25, or insert mail into james' spool
> localusers would have to collect mail via POP3 on localhost 110 instead of
> getting it delivered into a mail file.
1.1) A simple java program (using the same parameters of /usr/bin/sendmail)
wrapped by a shell script would solve the problem?
1.2) Allowing James to use the same file format of sendmail isn't already a
work in progress? Anyway I don't need my users to access the Linux Box
directly, if they want to read their mails they sould use their own clients
(win95/2K)
> 2/ is a little trickier, and making james snarf users from /etc/passwd
would
> probably be the quick and dirty route
2) Would you like a UserStore implementation which interfaces to the
/etc/passwd file or something else?

My questions are posted because I would share my solution with the project
and I wish to contribute in a positive way...

Roberto


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RE: No answers: reposting

[Danny Angus <da...@thought.co.uk>]

I'm not sure what the answer is, but here are some guesses.. if you're handy
with shell scripts that might be all you need to do

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto Lo Giacco [mailto:rlogiacco@smartlab.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:19 PM
> To: james-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: No answers: reposting
>
>
> Can someone tell me if:
> - Can I replace sendmail with James on my Linux box?

Not in any practical sense, when you send mail to and from local users
sendmail doesn't use the protocols, and setting up localhost (even by IP or
FQDN) as a gateway is ridiculed by sendmail and forbidden :-(

> - Can I use system accounts as mail accounts?
No, though its an interesting idea

> - Can you tell me what contribute is needed to get this functionalities?

1/ would need a replacement for /usr/bin/sendmail which would send mail via
localhost 25, or insert mail into james' spool
localusers would have to collect mail via POP3 on localhost 110 instead of
getting it delivered into a mail file.
2/ is a little trickier, and making james snarf users from /etc/passwd would
probably be the quick and dirty route


>
> For any misunderstood please refer to my previous email "Begging
> your pardon".
>


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