Final word on sendmail dropping mail.

[Dave Cohrs]

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> Repeat By:
> Crank up the load over 12 or so.  Send local mail.  Run sendmail -q
> to force delivery of queued mail.  Wait for delivery....
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	will a load of 50 do (recorded today)?

> Re: taking out the 'user' checks.

This isn't the best thing to do.  The problem here really is that
/bin/mail (as all good [grrrr] BSD programs) does a getlogin() instead
of a getpwuid(getuid()).  If this is done, the code functions fine
as is.  If these checks are taken out, *ANY USER* can send mail
and say it's from WHOMEVER THEY WANT to say it's from (Note: sites
that have implemented this 'fix' now have very insecure mail systems).
/bin/mail has enough holes in it, it doesn't need more!

-- 
(Bug?  What bug?  That's a feature!)

Dave Cohrs
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