My grateful thanks for the comments and advice. Once I've packaged mutt for microcore (with mail group) and reboot into stock system, I can send an email via mutt without mail group via smtp fine. Does mutt need the mail group for general email, maintenance, or interaction with other software such as sendmail ?
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:36:15 -0500 > From: inva...@pizzashack.org > To: stephe...@hotmail.com > CC: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: Compiling mutt without mail group > > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:12:03AM +0000, Stephen Butler wrote: > > So anyway, I created the mail group and everything compiled fine > > after that. I was wondering if its possible to change the required > > group from mail to something else, such as a group called staff ? > > You probably really don't want to do that. Lots of mail-related > applications expect the group to be "mail", and as Ken points out, you > probably don't want anyone in the mail group, as that will give them > (probably) full access to the mail system. AND you don't want groups > associated with other applications to be used, so that, say, a > compromise of the postgresql daemon doesn't also automatically > compromise your mail system. Well-established user/group conventions > exist for very good reasons; you should follow them. > > -- > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > -=-=-=-=- > This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in > undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. >
