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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...)
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-10-30 2:40:58
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> So in conclusion:
> 
> 1)	There should be an fcntl() awar "driver" to go with the flock()
> 	aware "driver", since this is the best approach to locaking
> 	on FreeBSD (and NetBSD and OpenBSD, etc.).
> 2)	There needs to be a subset interface for non-MIME-aware
> 	mail transport agents (which only care about the encapsulated
> 	message, not how to break out contents other than addressing
> 	tags, which are seperate anyway, by definition).
> 3)	Sendmail (out "mail.local") should use the subset interface.
> 
> 
> A tall order, unfortunately. 8-(.

Or we could just make procmail the default mail store agent ;)

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