Re: root's mail delivering

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Autor: Richard Welty
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A: exim-users, doka
Asunto: Re: root's mail delivering

> I am a newbie in exim, and have first question. I wrote in configure:
> never_users = root
> and now exim can't deliver mail to root, I think, because it denied to
> setuid root on local delivery. How can I solve this (without writing
> new director, of course)?


allowing an MTA to run as root is a security hole, therefore root
shouldn't really be receiving/reading email. i always alias root to
whoever is supposed to be reading root's email (usually me).

cheers,
  richard
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