Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:04:37 +0200 | From | Alex Riesen <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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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?
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