andromeda@??? said:
> Now the question remains... is it a good thing to let it run as root
> for local delivery? How would one deliver mail to the root user (as
> the administrator of the machine)?
You don't - the basic rule is that you do as little as possible as
root, so mail delivery and reading should be done by a different
account without privileges (and root's mail aliased to that user).
Reasons for doing this include such things as potential holes in (say)
metamail which could lead to a system compromise as opposed to an
account compromise if you run them as root.
You can never be too paranoid - and they are out to get you.
Nigel.
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