[rt-users] RT and dotqmaildashext

[Rich Lafferty]

There's a cryptic warning in the RT installation docs that I'm having
trouble figuring out. It reads:

   The usual place to put aliases in qmail is ~alias. However, qmail
   runs piped system commands as the local alias user, and this causes
   problems with the suid-wrapped rt-mailgate. The following two
   examples show different methods to get around this. Note that both
   methods require the creation of a local user called 'rt'.

and then suggests using ~rt/.qmail-QUEUENAME or using users/assign to
get the mail handled properly. I can't figure out what the "problems"
the author mentions could be (especially since rt-mailgate isn't
suid-wrapped at all -- it's setgid, no wrapper.)

Does anyone recall why ~alias/.qmail-QUEUENAME with
"|/path/to/rt-mailgate" in shouldn't work?

  -Rich

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