On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:26:05 -0500, replies-lists-redhat wrote > on older RH systems (with older versions of sendmail) the account is > "mail". on newer ones it's "mailnull". > > on a related issue, if you have backup copies of the messages put > into "sabackup" (or whatever - that's generally the default), the > "mail" or "mailnull" account will need a real shell in order to > maintain this message backup directory at whatever recent message > count you select > (default is generally 20). there are some potential security issues > with giving these accounts a real shell, so you'll want to come up with > some other approach for maintaining the message backup directory. As it turns out on my RH 9 system procmail assumes the identity of the recipient. Thanks for the info though. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
