Re: [exim-dev] What user should ${run...} in config file run…

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Συντάκτης: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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Προς: Marc Haber
Υ/ο: exim-dev
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim-dev] What user should ${run...} in config file run as?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:01:16PM +0000, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> Is there a good reason not to leave these features out of the default
>> build and make them available only as a compile time option ?
>
> Distributors would end up with these features enabled in their
> packages, invalidating the security win for the vast majority of exim
> installations.


I'd ask my distributor to reconsider if they did that.

I have 100+ machines with exim which only forward to my
mail server. For the one mail server it is reasonable to
compile in the extra featires I need or remove those I can live
without, but the 100+ machines ought to be running the version from
the distribution.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna