Re: [exim] Options that do or not affect trusted_users?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Adam Funk
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Options that do or not affect trusted_users?
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Adam Funk wrote:

> The way I read the specification (e.g. Sec.43.16), (1) these options
>
> local_sender_retain
> local_from_check
> suppress_local_fixups
>
> affect only messages sent locally by untrusted users; (2) a user is
> "untrusted" if and only if he is not in trusted_users and he is not a
> member of a group in trusted_groups;


and he is not root or the exim user.

> and (3) a trusted user's local messages are never subjected to
> Sender-overwriting and the local-From test.
>
> Right? If wrong, how wrong?


Right.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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