From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 14:40:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C7314E2C for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from heidi.plazza.it (va-139.skylink.it [194.185.55.139]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09011; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 23:38:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heidi.plazza.it (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09163; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:54:37 GMT X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Posted-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:54:37 GMT Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Pascal Hofstee Cc: Doug , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That > > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get > > it unless you ask for it. > > I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same > thing ... user postfix ... (as well as a group maildrop) Maybe a stupid question, but how do you figure out which uid is still available, if you don't want every port to include a UID scanning utility? Nick -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message