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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, James Fidell wrote: > David Bell wrote: > >> This appears in your headers Gordon. Any idea what it means? >> >> X-Authentication-Warning: unicorn.drogon.net: gordon owned process doing -bs > > I think it's a warning from sendmail because his mail client (running > under his own uid) invoked sendmail in SMTP mode to submit the message. > In the general scheme of things you'd not expect that to happen (and > you'd probably not want it to happen without it being traceable) as it > can be abused, but if you're in control of the machine and know that > can't happen then it's really no big deal. That's basically it. It's one of my own servers (unicorn.drogon.net) and I'm running the mail client (pine) directly on it. (Because that worked for me 15 years ago, so it will work for me for the next 15 years ;-) Although my uid is in the list of trusted users" so the warning shouldn't be generated. Hmm.. unicorn:/etc/mail# grep '^T' sendmail.cf Troot Tdaemon Tuucp Tgordon,majordomo gets out the bat book... (first edition, 93) Ah, no comma. Well there you go. Lets see what this one looks like... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html