On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Juha J?ykk? wrote:
> >>   On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it
> >> still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should
> bit from exim. Now my original question was: does it (exim) still need
> to be suid root? And the question still remains and depends (solely?)
> on whether it still can communicate with inetd. Inetd runs exim with

I would assume no setuid-root exim is needed for it to communicate with
inetd.

> mail's priviledges so giving mail access to any necessary directories
> is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues with the
> permissions of /var/spool/mail/<insert your favourite username here>.
> Now another question: are there?

As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by the 'mail' user I do
not see a problem here.

Also check /var/spool/mqueue... if also using outgoing e-mail

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