[Esd-l] $SECURITY_NOTIFY_RECIPIENT ?

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Sat Sep 8 19:34:02 PDT 2001


On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Paul Thomas wrote:

> > Because at the moment the recipient notification code is rather
> > simpleminded, and gets the recipient from $LOGNAME - which is only
> > meaningful for local delivery.
> 
> I noticed that in the html-trap code. Sorry to sound stupid, but
> what is $LOGNAME extracted from?

The login name of the user the mail is being delivered to for local
delivery. The way relay filtering is set up, that user is root.

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