From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 19 9:29:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB7537B403; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.134.128.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.134.128]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18062; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BD05505.85699483@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:29:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro , 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Doug Barton wrote: > > My only objection is the name of the user for uid 25. It should be > smtp, both to match the service name for the port, and to make it more > generic which will help us avoid the inevitable whining and crying from > the anti-sendmail crowd. Port 26 is currently unassigned, so it's as > good a candidate for your mailnull user as any. I think that name is a > little wacky, but since that's the default in sendmail and there's no > contenders for port 26, it's as good as any I suppose. :) We independently arrived at "mailnull" for the IBM Web Connections NOC, so count me as one vote in favor of the name. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message