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From: karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: inappropriate checks when mailing to a file
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Date: 16 May 91 13:16:37 GMT
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mrl@uai.com writes:
   Do you
   mean that sendmail changes to that uid before trying to deliver the
   mail into the file?  If sendmail is root in the first place, I don't
   see the benefit.

If the destination file is on an NFS-mounted filesystem with
root->nobody across the wire, it matters.