Re: mail.local vs. Smail3

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.03.9901041445410.17158-100000@tronix.signalpath.on.ca>
	so spake Louis Bertrand (louis):

> I would like to make changes to the way OpenBSD delivers and stores mail.
> It's silly and needlessly paranoid to insist that mail.local run as root.
> Instead, the files in the mail spool directory (/var/mail/<user>) should 
> have gid=mail and run mail.local with gid mail and uid nobody (as Smail
> prefers).

Nope, mail.local needs to be able to chown(2).  We have no intention
of shipping with /var/mail setgid mail.  If you want to change that
locally you can but it will not be the default.

 - todd