Re: Running PostGre on DVD

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: "Andreas Joseph Krogh" <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Running PostGre on DVD
Date: 2005-11-15 13:44:33
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7BCE@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > Yes. And this is a good thing! :-)
> > There is no reason a normal user should be able to run a service
> > process. And services should normally have dedicated accounts, and
> > there is no reason you should ever need to log in as that account
> > interactively.
>
> Yes there is, to setup a MAPI profile for the service to use.
>
> However I'd welcome it if you could prove that wrong with an
> easy way to create a profile for a different user :-)

Just don't use MAPI from a service. It was *NOT* made for doing that.
MAPI was created for a single user running a single-threaded app on a
single console.

There are plenty of other ways to get to your mail, that will actually
work :-)

//Magnus

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