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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Mathew Johnston
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Non root operation
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mathew Johnston wrote:

> [...] I dont want to have to give it root to let it listen on port 25.

That will be tricky. Only root can bind to port 25. You could run exim
out of inetd.

-j

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