[Esd-l] $SECURITY_NOTIFY_RECIPIENT ?

Paul Thomas paul at cuenet.com
Sat Sep 8 15:30:01 PDT 2001


On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, John D. Hardin wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Why should $SECURITY_NOTIFY_RECIPIENT not be used if the server is
> > a mail relay?
> 
> 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?

Thanks,

--Paul T.



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