On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> I'm having trouble finding the reason why Exim needs a numeric EXIM_UID.
Exim 4 doesn't.
> However, I don't quite understand why it can't _always_ look up the UID
> from the non-numeric string value given in exim_user. Could you lay
> this to rest for me?
Laziness early in the development history. It needs to have the number
known at compile time. Nowadays there's a program that gets run there,
and it was easy to change it for Exim 4.
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