Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:40:58 +1100 (EST) From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <199610300240.NAA24396@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <199610300043.RAA22382@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 29, 96 05:43:51 pm
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[...] > So in conclusion: > > 1) There should be an fcntl() awar "driver" to go with the flock() > aware "driver", since this is the best approach to locaking > on FreeBSD (and NetBSD and OpenBSD, etc.). > 2) There needs to be a subset interface for non-MIME-aware > mail transport agents (which only care about the encapsulated > message, not how to break out contents other than addressing > tags, which are seperate anyway, by definition). > 3) Sendmail (out "mail.local") should use the subset interface. > > > A tall order, unfortunately. 8-(. Or we could just make procmail the default mail store agent ;) -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
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