Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:53:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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
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