Subject: Re: Some suggested improvements to spamass-milter rc script
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/01/2006 18:48:54
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:10:06PM -0500, Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
> 1) The default command arguments probably should include a '-x' along
>    with everything else.  The fact that aliases and the virtual user
>    tables are not being used by default can be a real pain.

It makes it also much less likely that traffic e.g. to postmaster is
silently dropped. What stops you from setting it in
spamass_milter_flags? Aka, I don't like this change.

> 2) The command arguments probably could use a good way of allowing
>    rc.conf to override the defaults specified, such as allowing the
>    default user to be changed from "nobody" to a different value, such
>    as "@GLOBAL".

I think the package should create a user for this purpose directly,
running it as nobody feels very wrong.

Joerg