Quoth Philip Hazel on Thu, Aug 02, 2001:
> Unfortunately, as I've said before, I'm not omniscient[*].
> [*] For non-English speakers: that means "knows everything".
You meant "Latin". I noticed that to understand good English one
should know Latin and French. Thinking otherwise is naïvette.
> In fact, "touch /etc/aliases" is not the right thing to do. If you don't
> have any aliases, it is better to cut out the aliasfile director and
> save some work. (But actually, every host running an MTA SHOULD have at
> least a "postmaster" alias, and probably an alias for "root" as well.)
awk -F: '$1 != "root" && $3 < 100 || $3 >= 32767 {print $1 ":\troot"} \
END {print "abuse:\tpostmaster\nportmster:\troot\nroot:\tYOURLOGIN"}' \
</etc/passwd >/etc/aliases
Replace YOURLOGIN with your login, and you get a reasonable
approximation. On many OSes you would want to replace 100 with
500 or 1000.
> I try to make it as easy as I can, but it's complex software. You can't
> run an MTA without learning quite a lot. And, as I am continually
> discovering, you can't _write_ an MTA without learning a _heck_ of a
> lot. :-)
It's not that bad unless you want to be RFC-compilant. Some of
your competition manages quite well without knowing anything.
Vadik.
--
Of course [nobody reads the docs that come with the OS] -- that
would be too easy and too quick. People know that the Unix Way
is difficult and they prefer to keep it that way.
-- Greg Black
