Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 10 January 2001 at 01:50:14 -0500
> coming fro ma sendmail background i have a few questions about the method
> that qmail does things. 1) If a local user doesn't exist sendmail gives
> you a error when sending mail. IE - i send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], the local account or alias kurthb doesn't exist so
> before accepting the message for delivery sendmail says User Unknows or
> whatever it says. Why didn't DJB have qmail do something similar. plus
> doesn't the sendmail method cut down on the number of disk writes? If
> somebody has a clear answer I'd love to hear it. Maybe DJB cares to
> address it himself :-)
This information isn't know to qmail-smtpd. As part of the security
segmentation, qmail-smtpd doesn't understand or have file access to
the files that control the final delivery (which are in the user's
directory and owned by the user; while smtpd is running not as root
but as a dedicated user that may not have any access to user
directories).
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