Re: Changing standard mailbox setup of Debian?
Hi
Sam Hartman schrieb:
> >>>>> "Arthur" == Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> writes:
>
> Arthur> Richard Kettlewell schrieb:
> Arthur> We do only have this problem because of some programs that
> Arthur> ignore MAIL. MAIL allows you to choose whatever path you
> Arthur> want, and thus is a lot more flexible than any hard coded
> Arthur> default.
>
> No, that's simply not true. MTAs do not have access to the user's
> environment. They need a configuration/delivery default.
I realized this shortly after writing a formal proposal on
d-policy, read up on the bug for more on it.
Some common configuration file like /etc/mailname could be used
though, if at least ~ substitution on it was supported by all
mailers. I didn't look into how easy it would be to get all
mail-transport-agents to support this though.
> Also, you need to support the SGID mess in all your MUAs anyway
> because regardless of your default, you want to support
> /var/spool/mail. You could add even more complexity to not make MUAs
> setgid on systems where you don't need it, but it's not clear how
> useful this is.
mailx can't support it for security considerations (there seems
to be a problem with changing it to use a SGID helper app, if
not I guess somebody would have done it a long time ago). nail
doesn't as well (it's mailx + some changes from *BSD and MIME
support), I'm shure there are others.
ciao, 2ri
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