[Popcon-developers] Bug#264593: popularity-contest: it should be possible to configure user which invokes sendmail

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:57:59PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.23
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think it is reasonable to configure the MTA so that "root" cannot
> send mail to the outside world.  Therefore, I would like to be able
> to configure a user as which popcon invokes the MTA.  A patch to add
> this functionality is included.

I don't think it is reasonnable to configure the MTA that way, and
such users can modify cron.weekly to fit their need given cron.weekly is
a conffile, but you can try to convince me otherwise.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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