Re: [Exim] local delivery - permission denied

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Author: Steve Haslam
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] local delivery - permission denied
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:25:03PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, |{.f|. wrote:
> >Unsucsesfuly trying to send
> >a message from root to root.
>
> Exim configuration file. never_uses: root
> try to remove the line and then use it again ? Although sending mail as
> root is plain stupidity in my books.


Iirc, the restriction is on *delivering* mail as root.

Lots of things send mail as root, e.g. cron jobs...

SRH
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