Re: [Exim] Re: BUG: mailq doesn't behave as expected

Perhaps exim -bp (or 'mailq') should by default not output ANYTHING for
non-admin users, and there could be an option that would have to be
turned an 'allow-show-own-messages-in-queue' (probably that would be a
bad choice for the name of it though)


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Peter Radcliffe wrote:

> Rusty Russell <rusty@???> probably said:
> > That defeats the entire point. exim is failing to track ownership of
> > my mail, because it's delivered via loopback TCP port 25.
>
> exim can use ident information, if you have ident enabled. This is the
> only way to "track" the remote user of mail submitted to the SMTP
> port. There is no good way to do it.
>
> > This flaw is real (I'm not arguing whose fault it is, MUA, MTA or
>
> This "flaw" is you nitpicking, nothing else. No one else has ever
> complained about this and most of us like it this way.
>
> > Debian). Hence it needs to give *some* clue that you are not showing
> > all the information. Even saying "there is mail in the queue that I'm
> > not showing you because you're not admin" would be enough.
>
> Why should it be there at all ? Why does it _need_ to give people clues ?
> It gives the information the specification says it gives.
>
> If people run a complicated system like a unix box and an MTA without
> reading the documentation for that system then they cannot be helped.
>
> > There are an increasing number of single user Unix boxen out there:
> > adding this short message helps them a little bit.
>
> and there are an increasing amount of people who don't RTFM.
> We can't hand hold them all.
>
> P.
>
>

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