Author: Kevin Sindhu Date: To: exim-users, nslu Subject: Re: [Exim] [nslu@myxomop.com: Bug#126124: exim: promiscuous relay if running from inetd w/ exim_user=root in cf]
Moin Mark!
Mark Baker schrieb am Monday, den 24. December 2001:
> I believe one should never use exim_user = root at all, but I don't
> understand why that should lead to it being an open relay.
Its not related to running exim as root at all. However, if you do run
exim (on Linux only) out of inetd, it does become an open relay.
This has been reported before(check archives). The current solution is
to run exim as a standalone daemon (-bd).
