Russ Allbery writes:
> Tony D'Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi. I was doing some maintenance on our server running qmail and noticed
> > when i did "qmail-qread", there were over 4000 messages in the queue all
> > looked like this except for the odd one:
>
> > 26 Mar 1999 11:30:00 GMT #8947 425 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Since this server is only running moderated mailing lists, I was curious
> > as to who/what is sending these messages.
>
> Probably cron. qmail-inject uses that envelope sender under some
> circumstances when mail is sent fron cron; I'm not entirely sure why it
> happens (although I'm sure it's documented somewhere and someone will
qmail-inject sets the envelope sender to anonymous if it is set via any of
the environment variables.
It seems that qmail-inject doesn't want to to a getpwuid to find out the
running userid. So, unless it can manage to find a user name via some
other means, anonymous will be used.
--
Sam
