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Subject: running (outbound) qmail without root
From: "Michael Pheasant" <m.pheasant@imb.uq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:06:56 +1000
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Hi,

I maintain a Dive club website on a hosted server and need to maintain a mailing list.
The server runs sendmail and accepts smtp mail to our domain.
Incoming mail can be piped through unix commands, eg. |/path/to/qmail-inject
We dont have root access and cant change the inbound mail system.
Also we only have a single unix userid and group 'unidive'.
I would like to use qmail for the mailing list - easy with a single file eg. '.qmail-members' listing our member emails.
All mail will be remote deliveries.

I dont need qmail-local or qmail-smtp, so should be able to do what I want without root.

I have built qmail binaries using the 'unidive' user / group for all 8 lines in conf-users and 2 in conf-groups.

I can queue a mail with qmail-inject, and see it is queued with qmail-qstat.

Now I want to deliver the mail:
- When I try and run qmail-start, the process just silently exits.
- When I try and run qmail-send, the process just stops (but doesnt exit).

Any advice on how I can run a 'send-only' qmail without root would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mike.

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Michael Pheasant, PhD
Bioinformatics Research
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4067 Australia
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