Re: require_files undesirable behavior

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: T. William Wells
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: require_files undesirable behavior
On 16 May 1997, T. William Wells wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970516112010.1298O-100000@???>,
> Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> : I suppose you could create an exim-accessible directory containing links
> : to the .procmailrc files or something. Yuck.
>
> Since symbolic links don't circumvent directory protections, I
> presume that exim would just be testing for the presence of the
> symbolic link. Thus the existence of the symbolic link would have
> to track the existence of the user's .procmailrc. This is for an
> ISP; it isn't going to work that way. :-)


I did not say *symbolic* links.... (should have pointed that out).

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