Re: New TMDA install

On 12/19/06, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Bandel wrote:
> > On 12/19/06, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> David Bandel wrote:
> >>>> DELIVERY = "/var/mail/%s" % os.environ.get("USER")
> >>> the above is what was in there yesterday (when I was getting the error
> >>> about /var/mail/None doesn't exist.
> >>>
> >>> Guess I have to study Python now too. :-(
> >> Assuming "the above" means the part I quoted above, that simply means
> >> the the environment variable named USER isn't set. Either change USER to
> >> the correct environment variable name for your environment, or have
> >> whatever system is invoking tmda-rfilter set the USER environment variable.
> >
> > the "system" invoking tmda-rfilter is tmda-filter (invoked by
> > procmail, which is called by sendmail and is passed the uid).
>
> I'd guess you could get procmail to set USER how you want.
>
> Or, some Python code into /etc/tmdarc;-)
>

Resolution!
OK, I took a beating on this one, but what works is:
DELIVER = "/var/mail/" + os.environ.get("LOGNAME")

So I will now remove the DELIVER line from ~/.tmda/config and put the
above into /etc/tmdarc and see how it goes.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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