You should check with the packagers as to what their intent is. Running Exim non-suid is definitely more tricky; it traditionally needs privilege for some operations (including opening the SMTP socket for listen, and for delivery into user's mailboxes).
There is a docs chapter that discusses this: https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-security_considerations.html#SECTrunexiwitpri -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
