Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code in m_chkids() in sbr/context_save.c

[Ken Hornstein]

>>(AFAIK sendmail and friends always run stuff under the user's real and
>>effective uid, so I don't think slocal should ever be setuid).
>
>If you run "slocal" from ".forward", then it runs as the recipient
>(the person using ".forward").  But there are advantages to running
>slocal as a mailer defined in sendmail.cf

Do people even _do_ that?  I've written sendmail mailers myself, but
I can't really see any advantage for doing this here.

>We must also remember that there are other MTAs than sendmail.

Hence the reason I said, "sendmail and friends".

--Ken