[Mailman-Developers] install trouble

[Marc MERLIN]

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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