Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

[Pascal Hofstee]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
> 
>       Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> it unless you ask for it.

I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same
thing ... user postfix ... (as well as a group maildrop)

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