>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]]de la part de Davide Libenzi
>Envoyé : jeudi 17 décembre 2009 21:54
>À : XMail Users Mailing List
>Objet : Re: [xmail] Patches: IPv6 and SSL
>
>
>On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Stephan Müller wrote:
>
>> That is a good approach, but may I ask to make it a command 
>line option? The 
>> issue is the following: I like to run xmail under an 
>unprivileged user ID. I 
>> use the compartment tool which (rightfully) strips the 
>environment of all 
>> variables and replaces them with known good values before 
>doing a setuid and 
>> fork/exec. This means that environment variables are problematic.
>
>I don't like Unix-only options leak through the command line.
>I am plenty sure you can take care of setting proper enviroment with 
>compartment.
>
>
>
>- Davide
>
>

Why not simply add this variable in server.tab file ? doing so it could :
- be os independant (apply too in win32 systems ;-) )
- resolve possible environment variables problems (compartments, ... :)
- and if not set in server.tab file, use default system tmp directory as it
does actually

Francis

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