Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:54:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:54:14 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:57868 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:54:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux To: cat@zip.com.au (CaT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:53:10 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro), mhaque@haque.net (Mohammad A. Haque), ttel5535@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, mharris@opensourceadvocate.org (Mike A. Harris), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010425011132.H1245@zip.com.au> from "CaT" at Apr 25, 2001 01:11:32 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 1. email -> sendmail > 2. sendmail figures out what it has to do with it. turns out it's deliver ... > Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running > as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to happen > sendmail needs to start it as that user in step 3 and to do that it > needs extra privs, above and beyond that of a normal user. email -> sendmail sendmail 'its local' -> spool user: get_mail | procmail mutt The mail server doesnt need to run procmail. If you wanted to run mail batches through on a regular basis you can use cron for it, or leave a daemon running - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/