Suresh Ramasubramanian forced the electrons to say:
> > explicit permission. It should work both as an MTA and also as a smtpd binding
> > to some random port > 1024.
> 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).
Actually, you can. root's permission is required only if you need to bind to a
port < 1024. Since the OP says his port number is > 1024, it is not a problem.
If the OP tells us what he intends to achieve, we might be able to help him.
As such, I guess sendmail can be recompiled to use its mail spool etc. within
the home directory of the OP.
> > 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 ?
Recompiling qmail, after convincing it that omicron is the qmail user?
Binand
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