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Re: Postfix design directions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wietse Venema)
Thu Dec 24 20:31:54 1998

Date: 	Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:49:51 -0500
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Wietse Venema <wietse@PORCUPINE.ORG>
X-To:         Peter van Dijk <peter@attic.vuurwerk.nl>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <19981223215439.M172@attic.vuurwerk.nl> from Peter van Dijk at
              "Dec 23, 98 09:54:39 pm"

Peter van Dijk:
> 3) Use a UNIX socket, TCP/IP, named pipes, whatever you want, to communicate
> between user-level, user-owned processes (which might be a nice sendmail-like
> interface) and a long-running process that writes into the queue.
>
> No s[ug]id execution, no world-writeable dirs, just a small performance hit.

Unfortunately, that means that mail cannot be posted when the
mail daemon is not running.

        Wietse

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