omicron rearranged electrons thusly:
> i want to set up an email-server for myself , and without the root's
> explicit permission. It should work both as an MTA and also as a smtpd binding
> to some random port > 1024. And it must be one of these: courier,exim, postfix,
> qmail, sendmail.
Mailservers _must_ run as root - for various reasons (such as accessing the
mail spool etc). If you want to just send out mail you can set up nullmailer /
ssmtp etc. But without root's permission you can't set up an smtp listener (or
have something listening on a port). For quite obvious reasons (security etc).
> i tried setting up qmail but it keep insisting on su'ing to qmail user,
> which cannot happen as i'm not root. Any ideas ?
Ask your sysadmin to grant you permission?
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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