Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:24:16 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned) Message-ID: <20011018192416.A76549@coffee.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <15311.13269.286373.567737@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:56:05PM -0700 References: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <xzpofn5dqqk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <15311.1383.814782.672622@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3BCF1A60.13C78B28@DougBarton.net> <15311.6913.618332.163251@horsey.gshapiro.net> <xzpvghcbvry.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <15311.13269.286373.567737@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> des> If it's used for the submission client, then use UID 587
>
> Again, the daemon lists on port 587 and doesn't use that user ID. It's for
> the mail submission program (MSP), not mail submission agent (MSA). Also,
> I thought that were was unwritten rule that system UIDs were under 100.
>
> des> call it something else ("submit", for instance, as "submission" would
> des> be too long).
>
> Sigh, I had hoped to leave it as documented in the sendmail docs instead of
> having FreeBSD be different than other operating systems. OpenBSD and
> Solaris 9 have already adopted smmsp, uid 25. The FreeBSD port also has
> been using smmsp.
I'm with Gregory on this, there's no need for us to be gratuitously
different. For better or worse sendmail is our default MTA, so we
should strive to be as compatible as possible with it.
Best regards,
Mike Barcroft
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