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- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
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- From: "G. Del Merritt" <del@giant.IntraNet.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 09:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
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- In-reply-to: UUCP%"system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT" 's message of 12-NOV-1992
- 04:30:28.72
- >A minor question still: what do i have to do to reverse the
- >order of appearence, i.e. instead of
- >From: system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT (Franz Schoenbauer)
- ^^^^^^
- (see below)
-
- As a minor point, not directly related to your question: you shouldn't
- (99% of the time) ever be sending MAIL from VMS's "SYSTEM" or U*ix's
- "root". Why?
-
- First, it means your doing too much work in a privileged context, and
- therefore you are likely to miss details that un-priv'd users will get
- caught up on. To paraphrase DEC's recommendation, "Use SYSTEM only
- for system upgrades and special system maintenance like standalone
- BACKUP; create a different account for operators, normal backups,
- etc..."
-
- Second, some mailers routinely ignore messages from "root" (and I've
- seen some configured to ignore "SYSTEM") so to avoid infinite mailer
- loops and similar email ills. This is sometimes intentional defensive
- programming. Sometimes it comes that way "out of the box".
-
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