Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:13:59 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199604222213.AAA09500@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199604221641.JAA16380@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199604220320.XAA08263@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199604221641.JAA16380@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Jonathan M. Bresler writes: > check the permissions on your sendmail. sendmail needs to run as root > for several reasons. it needs to read people's .forward file > regardless of the permissions. >it needs to append to people's mailboxes. No, this is the job of /usr/libexec/mail.local (also suid root). >it needs to bind port 25. Only first time like httpd in daemon mode. >any others? Automatically rebuilt of /etc/aliases.db and other databases, permissions of various directories in /var. Wolfram
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