From: Adam Sherman (adamtritus.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 09:08:14 CST

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On 03/27/03 07:00:39 +0100 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

>> I am designing an app that will need to poll a mailbox for reply
>> confirmations.
>
> Why that? You could hook in the application behind an alias
>
> system: |/your/app

Since my app is heavy I would like it not to interfere with delivery.

>> I will be using addresses of the form system+uuidhost.com
>> and want all messages delivered into a maildir located at
>> /var/spool/mail/system/.
>> I don't really want this Maildir to be world-writable.
>
> Why should it? It belongs to "system"
> Why does it have to be /var/spool/mail/system if the mailbox is polled
> for confirmations anyway -- I mean the location doesn't matter, does it?

Location doesn't matter, but I don't want to create a user just for the
app. I guess I will need to though.

Thanks for your input,

A.

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