On 31-Dec-98 Russell Nelson wrote:
> 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.
Hmm... OK. Spoke too soon. Past replies I've made only went to the sender,
because they were sent directly to me, not cc:ed to the list. When I hit reply
to your email it asked me 'reply to all?', and included the cc to the list, so
we're ok.
[snip]
> You can also do it on the command line (at least with bash and sh):
>
> MAILNAME=Superuser /usr/sbin/cron
That doesn't persist through a reboot, but I suppose I could put that line
in the rc script instead of the line that runs cron just now.
> > 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.
Understood, though I don't see the problem with the security hole. Even
if there is a hole, the worst it can do is bring up the wrong "name" isn't it?
Perhaps it should be mentioned in the sendmail to qmail checklist...
Anyway, thanks. I hope you and all list members had a nice festive season / new
year / whatever you celebrate.
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Cheers!
Brian
