Hi David,

this feature is in trunk...  You can easly "backport" it:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-500

Cheers,
Norman

2008/10/14 David Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hi Martin,
>
>  Yes, I run James as root; but only because I couldn't find an easy way to
>>> run it as anything else.
>>>
>>
>> What's so hard at running James as non-root? The only 'problem' is that
>> you cannot bind to port 25 but that can be easily solved by running James on
>> port 2525 (or any other post > 1024) and using iptables to map port 25 to
>> 2525.
>>
>>
>
> That's an interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me!
>
> I guess I've been spoiled with other software like Tomcat where you can use
> something like JSVC which starts running the software as root and then after
> opening the appropriate ports switches to another user.
>
>
> Regards,
> David Legg
>
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