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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Non-root sendmail?
Message-ID: <735@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 21:07:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)

) John M Chambers:
) > Is there a way to run sendmail under a non-root id?  

Badri Lokanathan:
) It may not be possible for the following reason: there is no way currently
) for any other id to concatenate a new message to /usr/spool/mail/fubar,

Sendmail doesn't *do* that, /bin/mail does.