From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 8 09:40:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA08255 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08240 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA16086 ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:40:50 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA25565 ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:41:08 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id SAA04448; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:14:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199604081614.SAA04448@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: The Biff service To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:14:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Current Users' list) In-Reply-To: <199604080956.LAA04555@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 8, 96 11:56:44 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1864 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that J Wunsch said: > Would people kill me for introducing a `-b' option to mail.local(8) to > stop it from attempting to use the ``biff'' service? Now I know why I haven't seen any connection attempt from biff... I'm using procmail as local delivery agent. I'd would say, go on with the option. It can't hurt anyway. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #10: Sun Apr 7 18:52:11 MET DST 1996