>Sound to me like you want to re-invent qmail, daemontools and >ucspi-tcp.
At least part of it is actually reinventing Unix mail from pre-network days -- local delivery used to be the only delivery and the local transport (I believe it was called 'deliver') was setuid. Haven't heard of daemontools, but it sounds like something I would like and that I've spent some time reinventing. Thanks. I have always been irritated by all the duplication in the various daemon programs, and by those programs deviating from their core competence to mess with the vagaries of daemonhood. On the other hand, Exim has way too much brilliance as an SMTP mail server to walk away from it. Hence my search for a simple compromise. >if security outranks all other concerns by a few orders of >magnitude then why not. I'm actually less paranoid than most about security, especially if you mean protecting a system against criminals. My main interest is just simplicity. The Exim world is complex enough that more than once, I've done something creative and later learned I'd broken mail or opened a gaping security hole via Exim. If Exim were not installed setuid, it would substantially reduce the network of scenarios I have to consider. -- Bryan Henderson Phone 408-621-2000 San Jose, California -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
