Re: nobody/nogroup - ITP maildir-bulletin
Along with this, since just about everyone is running a mail transport agent of
one sort or another, directly delivering mail into mailboxes is NOT needed.
Just send mail to these people, it's not hard. What other features does this
package have that make it deliver directly rather than go through the
established methods?
Dave Bristel
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:19:11 +0200
> From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
> To: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, bam@snoopy.apana.org.au
> Subject: Re: nobody/nogroup - ITP maildir-bulletin
> Resent-Date: 24 Oct 1999 14:21:01 -0000
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> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:49:39PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> >> I am about to develop a package which delivers email bulletins to Maildir
> >> mail users. This needs to be SUID root to deliver mail inside their home
> >> directories.
> >
> >Technically, it doesn't need to be suid root -- it could also be run by root.
>
> The idea of having lots of Postfix configurations running external programs
> as root doesn't appeal to me at all. Postfix doesn't seem to allow different
> users for different programs, it's just one UID per external program.
>
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