> Why should a mail reader be able to modified it ?
Because if, in the future, some mail reader does start modifying it,
someone won't start complaining about the documentation not saying a
mail reader can modify it.
(This is a possible, if unlikely situation - consider a web based mail
system for all users of the system, with the administrator being able to
set the visible system name. The actual system would call a smarthost
for all outgoing email, and wouldn't itself be an MTA, but it would
definitely be a mail reader, and one that might want to modify the
/etc/mailname file).
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- Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> - http://www.sacredchao.net
"What I did was justified because I had a policy of my own... It's
okay to be different, to not conform to society."
-- Chen Kenichi, Iron Chef Chinese
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