qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I'd like to ask you: is this procedure dangerous? There is the
> > > possibility of loosing messages, receive attacks, or something I can't
> > > imagine now?
>
> > Yes. You said $$ was the PID; that can wrap (especially if you're on a >
> > system with 15- or 16--bit PIDs), and you get a filename collision -- and
> > lose mail.
> Oh, don't say that! Are you shure??
Yes. You said you're creating all files named mail-PID -- a 15-bit PID space
might wrap in an hour on a moderately busy server. If you've got mail in the
.../new/ directory that's an hour old, you could lose mail.
As for forwarding, you can set NEWSENDER to be whatever you want, and the
message will go out with that as the envelope sender.
Charles
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
