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Date:      Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject:   Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's
Message-ID:  <199909040034.UAA02063@sable.cc.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <976.936371894@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On 03-Sep-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Perhaps the objections were raised because I didn't say I wanted to
> sandbox Sendmail. I've looked through my sent mail and I can see that
> I
> didn't say anything about it in my initial mail. That's unfortunate.

If you sandbox sendmail, then it makes sense that sendmail will need a
user to be sandboxed in.  In that case, adding a new user/group is
acceptable.  It was the adding a new user/group just for the sake of
adding a new user/group that bothered many of us. ;)

> Ciao,
> Sheldon.

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