On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> disaster is actually a bad thing - they ought to find out sooner rather
> than later. OTOH, there may be MUAs in use which use only fcntl() and
> the sysadmin might not have any knowledge of what they are actually
> doing.
Many people have mail administration thrust upon them, so this could
occur. Is it possible to produce a program to test whether such a case is
likely to arise? The person could run this as part of the build process
and know what value to pick.
I would say that Exim is very robust and that this is a good thing, so I
would suggest that the cautious approach should remain the default, and
the people who know what they are doing can "soup things up" with
reference to caveats in the manual.
Hugh
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