On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
I figured it out (I think). After you mentioned qmail-local.c I looked at
the source code. There, I found a file called conf-patrn, which defines what
modes qmail-local.c will tolerate on home directories.
> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:35:20AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> >
> > Oops. Unpatched qmail 1.03 on FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE. I was looking at the
> > output of qmail-showctl, and didn't understand what paternalism means:
> >
> > $ qmail-showctl
> > qmail home directory: /usr/local/qmail.
> > user-ext delimiter: -.
> > paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> > silent concurrency limit: 120.
> > subdirectory split: 23.
> > user ids: 69, 70, 71, 0, 72, 73, 74, 75.
> > group ids: 70, 71.
> >
> > badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
> >
> > [further output snipped]
>
> Sorry, I saw this the first time. I have no idea what that exactly
> means. Only qmail-local uses it as a '&' parameter to see if the
> homedir is writeable. But I still don't understand it completly.
>
> --
> Andre
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