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> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > This would be lying, because it *doesn't* show messages from me.
> > Remember, mh sends via tcp to port 25, 127.0.0.1.
> >
> > The whole concept of only showing "my" messages is broken. At least
> > give me notice that exim has failed!
>
> Originally, -bp worked for everybody. Then security worries caused me to
> restrict it. I'm quite happy to restrict it to admin users only, period.
> I don't actually think non-admin users actually make much use of it -
> what do ordinary users know? :-) [And fewer and fewer messages nowadays
> originate on the hosts where the MUA is running, and, as you say, even
> those that do sometimes use TCP/IP and so don't count.]
Hey, having it fail for non-admin users, when configured like that,
would be wonderful.
$ mailq
You are not an admin. Go away.
$ echo $?
1
$
Rusty.
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