Brian S. Craigie writes:
> Hi again.
>
> I searched the mailing list and once again found a question but no answer.
> Perhaps it was answered off-list. [comment: why doesn't the mailing list set
> reply-to to the list?]
Because that confuses people whose email client has a Reply button.
They get used to hitting Reply to Reply to the sender. Then they sign
onto a mailing list, and suddenly Reply means Reply to All. But their
MUA already has a Reply to All button. If it doesn't have one, then
it needs to have one added. Adding Reply-To: list is the wrong solution.
> Anyway, I see from the faq how to set MAILNAME for a user in their environment,
> (or MAILUSER) but how do I do this for root when the root .profile isn't
> sourced, such as with 'cron' and 'at'?
You can also do it on the command line (at least with bash and sh):
MAILNAME=Superuser /usr/sbin/cron
> BTW, sendmail gets the user's real name from /etc/passwd (or the NIS/NIS+
> equivalent). Wouldn't it be smart for qmail to do that too _if_ MAILNAME is not
> set?
Not if there's a security hole in getpwuid. Not to mention the fact
that that often sucks in a lot of other code and bloats the executables.
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