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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:04:37 +0200
From: Alex Riesen <a.riesen@traian.de>
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Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux
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In-Reply-To: <E14s57p-0002LM-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:53:10PM +0100
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Isn't this a good thing to have spam filtered out before it will be
written in spool?

Alex Riesen
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