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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:08:24 +0100
From:      Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned)
Message-ID:  <20020124090824.GA26481@erg.verweg.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C4F5767.1B19D5BC@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:37:59PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth, I think that the user:
> 
> 	smmsp		Sendmail Mail Submission Protocol
> 
> should be changed to:
> 
> 	mspd		Mail Submission Protocol Daemon
> 
> to be agnostic to the program using it.

smmsp is the name the sendmail authors devised and since sendmail is still
the defacto MTA under FreeBSD there is no reason to change it.
Other MTA's may use enterly different security mechanisms.

And if you don't like the `sendmail' part in smmsp you can always think of it
as: System Mail Submission Protocol

> 
> -- Terry
> 
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Regards,
	Ruben


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