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To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: mail.local permissions
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From: Jussi Reissell <reissell@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 06 Nov 2000 15:41:41 +0200
In-Reply-To: Gregory Neil Shapiro's message of "Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:52:01 -0800 (PST)"
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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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