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Date:      06 Nov 2000 15:41:41 +0200
From:      Jussi Reissell <reissell@cc.helsinki.fi>
To:        Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Pilli <reissell@cc.helsinki.fi>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail.local permissions
Message-ID:  <87ofztqktm.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi>
In-Reply-To: Gregory Neil Shapiro's message of "Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:52:01 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <87pukb19r6.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> <14852.52421.669235.2118@horsey.gshapiro.net> <87hf5mjlvg.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> <14853.44113.22139.319020@horsey.gshapiro.net>

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Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

> I was referring to the FreeBSD release notes (see below).  But the
> mail.local information is in the sendmail release notes as well:
> 
> 	MAIL.LOCAL: Will not be installed setuid root.  To use mail.local
> 		as local delivery agent without LMTP mode, use
> 		MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')
> 		to set the S flag.

Yes, this is indeed so. As I was upgrading 8.11.0 (of FBSD 4.1.1) to
8.11.1, I didn't bother to read the release notes concerning
8.10.0. I'm still mildly baffled why my 8.11.0 didn't exhibit this
behaviour, though. But this is a non-issue by now, AFAIC.

> reissell> Am I missing something really really obvious?
> 
> /usr/src/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT.  

Well, this is it. I am greatful for your patience.

jussi


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