From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 8 09:12:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CF9106566C for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2E48FC0C for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:27 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,239,1262563200"; d="scan'208";a="155427285" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded) ([82.152.120.109]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 08 Jan 2010 09:12:26 +0000 Received: by glynthebearded (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8732A2C3EB; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:26 +0000 (GMT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19270.63226.440511.779686@millingtons.org> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:26 +0000 To: Matthias Apitz In-Reply-To: <20100108090256.GA1998@current.Sisis.de> References: <20100107155451.GA26295@current.Sisis.de> <19270.54320.163083.261490@millingtons.org> <20100108090256.GA1998@current.Sisis.de> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) From: glyn@millingtons.org (Glyn Millington) Cc: Glyn Millington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail && SMTP AUTH: question about /etc/mail/auth/client-info file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:12:28 -0000 Matthias Apitz writes: > > Hello Glyn, > > I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not > explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it > the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root", > but what does this mean exactly? Sorry, Matthias, I misread your question. I think it can only refer to the uid under which sendmail is running, but can find no proof of that :-) atb Glyn