wrote Nigel Metheringham ... in response to others ;)
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> A possible alternative would be to have exim processes always started by
> forking from the privileged dispatcher daemon (the forked children would
> normally immediately be down-prived). We would then need a means to
> regain privilege for:-
> * Initial mail injection
> * Delivery setup
Yuck,
> And we have the big fat central management daemon like people have been
> pining for all these years...
and yuck again.
(Granted I do run in an environment were I do not need to worry about
all of this 'privilege' and can run completely as a 'non-root' user)
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