Hi! On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:28:32AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >[...]
>As a second note, postfix as a standalone entity may be secure, but I >am not sure how secure it will be if it starts interacting with some >other piece of software. Also, from the top of my head I can say that >postfix's 'mailq' gets me the status even as a normal user, while that >of sendmail does not (maybe I am wrong, and defaults have changed >now). YMMV. You can configure that, see http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html the authorized_mailq_users option. That allows even more fine-grained configuration than sendmail (either restricted to the group owner of the queue directory or permit all users to query the mail queue). >-Amarendra Kind regards, Hannah.