Sendmail isn't required to be run as root. It only needs to be root in
daemon mode.
-Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michiel Boland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:27 AM
> To: CF-Linux
> Subject: RE: CFMAIL Woes
>
>
> > You can use CFFile to create a file in Sendmail's spool directory
> > (/var/spool/mqueue/). If the file is a valid email Sendmail
> will attempt to
> > send it.
>
> Erm, the mailq directory is owned by root and mode 0700.
> Sendmail will not
> process entries in the queue directory that are not owned by
> root. Are you
> suggesting running coldfusion as the super-user??????
>
> A better method might be a cfx tags that talks to sendmail directly. I
> don't know if C cfx tags are supported under linux. If they
> are I might
> have a go at this someday.
>
> Cheers
> Michiel
>
>
>
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