[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.19 is released

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Andrey V. Pevnev wrote:

>  I have a little suggestion: could you add a configure option (for
>  example --with-user=) to set up uid for mimedefang? And during
>  install process:
>  1) Edit init-script and enable MX_USER= if this option is given.
>  2) Chown spool directory to this user.
>  3) Chown mimedefang-ip-key to this user (instead of hard-coding to
>     defang in Makefile).

That's a good idea; I will do it.  Do we want the configure script to fail
if the named user doesn't exist?  Or just let "make install" fail?

Here's the $64,000 question... does anyone know a portable way to add
a user (and group) in UNIX?  I thought not... :-(

--
David.