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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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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?
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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