On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen your patches, however, I don't think it is really necessary > to add a new system user for mlmmj. There are many ways to use MLMMJ, > one would be without using any system user at all, which is what one > would use to do virtual hosting, and which is what I do. In such a > configuration, the username would not be mlmmj. Therefore, it's best to > just leave the choice to the user and let him do it by hand.
It is the "add an user _by hand_" that I want to avoid. > I believe here, you're maybe too much influenced by bad practice with > less good list manager, like mailman, maybe? Both http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-exim4/ and http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/ say to create a mlmmj user. What would an acceptable place for inclusion of adduser --system --quiet \ --home /var/spool/mlmmj --no-create-home \ --shell /bin/false --ingroup mlmmj \ --gecos "Mailing List Management Made Joyful" \ mlmmj ? Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
