Author: OpenMacNews Date: To: Jakob Hirsch, 'Exim-users' CC: 'Exim-users' Subject: Re: [exim] different user than EXIM_USER for authenticator?
hi jakob,
>> leads me to suspect that authenticators CANNOT be config'd to use a
>> *different* user.
>
> No. Unlike dovecot, exim does not have separate processes for
> authentication.
> I have dovecot's passwd file readable by the exim group. That's probably
> not super secure, but it works. Better than running dovecot-auth as
> exim, in any case.
