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Date:      02 Sep 1999 13:36:49 +0300
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's
Message-ID:  <86671tsipp.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za's message of "2 Sep 1999 12:41:15 %2B0300"
References:  <19990901163559.A54796@gelatinous.com> <22862.936265134@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn) writes:

> Actually, not. The postfix and exim ports, at least, would be taught to
> use the new UID when it became available in STABLE. I'm pretty sure
> smail and others would follow suit. Remember, _we_ control the ports and
> can have packages install for whatever ID we please.

The transition could be much quicker if the uid was added by a port
(e.g. mail/smtp-user) and the ports that wanted to use it depended on
that port.


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