Re: local sendmail
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:53:03AM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > > emailjp79@xxxxxx wrote: [Wed Feb 04 2009, 09:38:07AM EST]
> > > > Is there some other way around this other than having to run postfix?
> > >
> > > I haven't used rss2email but it seems trivial to edit
> > > rss2email.py to call procmail instead of sendmail. Something
> > > like:
> > >
> > > --- rss2email.py.orig 2009-02-04 09:51:18.000000000 -0500
> > > +++ rss2email.py 2009-02-04 09:52:14.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -188 +188 @@
> > > - i, o = os.popen2(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", recipient])
> > > + i, o = os.popen2(["/usr/bin/procmail"])
> > >
> >
> > I did the same a while ago (6+ months) and it works just fine. Besides,
> > it also helps to keep procastination confined only to my personal PC,
> > instead of chasing me on my online mailboxes.
>
> Does not work. Tried it today, and you only get a mbox that is not a
> real mbox. You can edit it by hand, inserting a blank line between the
After switching to debian lenny, I encountered the same problem saying
the spool file is not a valid mailbox. But debian and its derivatives
should have already installed exim4 as mta by default. I changed that
line to /usr/sbin/exim and it works again.
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