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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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