Re: Attachment altered because of 7 bit (none) encoding.
* Paul Walker <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-12-06 20:21 +0000]:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > Well, this is fine if this has the same result as SMTP. But the user
> > can't pretend that SMTP will not be used because the user is local to
> > the machine.
>
> Except that it won't. I can't actually think of an MTA which is demented
> enough to talk SMTP to itself on the same machine, rather than just
> delivering direct to the spoolfile.
Recent version of sendmail do that.
| As of sendmail 8.12, in order to improve security, the sendmail binary no
| longer needs to be set-user-ID root. Instead, a set-group-ID binary
| accepts command line mail and relays it to a full mail transfer agent via
| SMTP. A group writable client mail queue (/var/spool/clientmqueue/ by
| default) holds the mail if an MTA can not be contacted.
|
| To accomplish this, under the default setup, an MTA must be listening on
| localhost port 25. ...
Nicolas
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