27 Mar
2002
27 Mar
'02
9:43 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:20:19PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
RJ> Ah, I see what's going on.. configure changed between 2.0.5 RJ> and 2.1; in 2.0.5 it just checks "other mail demon" for RJ> possible groups - and at the time I reviewed that, and RJ> realized it'd make the right choice. in 2.1 it now checks RJ> "mailman other mail demon", which causes it to guess wrong, RJ> because while mailman is the group I want all mailman procs RJ> running under, sendmail runs in a different group...
Yeah, I made this change because it makes Postfix installation much easier. With that MTA, you want your mail programs running under user.group mailman, so that default makes the most sense (i.e. a simple "configure ; make install" Just Works).
Am I being too biased towards Postfix to the detriment of other MTAs?
I think it's good for mailman to default being run as UID mailman. exim also runs the wrapper as UID mailman in most configs
Marc
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