Re: [Exim] About running the whole mail system as 'exim'

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Author: Jason
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] About running the whole mail system as 'exim'
As for Q-Mail, it is probably the easiest to configure for mail, as their is very
few things you can actually configure, just one of the hardest ones to
compile.

Exim is by far the easiest to configure, post compiling, not as easy to start
to compile. Some of the options that are asked for us to configure, could be
done in Autoconfigure because if the so.. doesn't exist why compile for it.

As for QPopper I had no problems with qpopper, it has configuration settings
for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, PAM, seperate pop.auth file




On 29 Aug 2000, at 9:24, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:28 AM, "Brian K. West" <brian@???> wrote: | If
> you wish to talk about buggy software go talk about wu-ftpd that whole | program
> is a bug. Granted Qmail and Sendmail are both great software but | they lack
> the ease of configuration and flexibility that exim has. As far | as running as
> root... I run my whole mail system as user exim.. even the | popper runs as
> exim.. never even touches root privileges, since the whole | mail system is
> virtual(ie. User do not have a real login at all). I auth my | popper off mysql
> and also route mail with mysql.. seems to be quite fast.
>
>
> What popper do you use? I've been very unlucky so far finding a decently
> configurable popper (apart from, of course, tinkering with the source before
> compiling). I particularly like the concept of running everything non-root, but
> right now my popper (qpopper) relies on the etc/passwd file to obtain UIDs from.
> I would really appreciate anything you can recommend.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Trevor Sky Garside
> trevor@???
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>
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