From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 18 12:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F302537B40A; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 9A80A14C2E; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:20:01 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: Doug Barton , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned) References: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <15311.1383.814782.672622@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3BCF1A60.13C78B28@DougBarton.net> <15311.6913.618332.163251@horsey.gshapiro.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Oct 2001 21:20:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15311.6913.618332.163251@horsey.gshapiro.net> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gregory Neil Shapiro writes: > I'd worry about the confusion of calling it smtp given that user is not > used by the SMTP server (the sendmail daemon), it is used by the MSP (mail > submission program), i.e., when users/programs run sendmail from the > command line for initial submission of the mail. Calling it 'smtp' may > lead people to believe the SMTP daemon uses it. If it's used for the submission client, then use UID 587 and call it something else ("submit", for instance, as "submission" would be too long). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message