On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> > In short words you must be root to do mailq.
>
> No. You must be a member of trusted_users or trusted_groups.
Typo there. You mean admin_groups or the Exim group (there's no
admin_users).
> > I reckon this is by design.
>
> Yes. I believe it's primarily due to the privacy issues involved with
> letting an unpriviledged user see what mail is sitting on queue and the
> senders and recipients of those messages.
Yes, that's exactly it.
> > You might want to try sudo or a similar tool.
>
> That's not necessary. Set 'queue_list_requires_admin = false' in your
> config file to override this behavior.
Correct.
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