Re: [exim] never_users list

On 2008-08-19 at 09:54 -0700, 91change wrote:
> i am not sending any mail to root . That is why i am confused .

But the remote_smtp transport runs *as* the exim user, with the
assumption that it's not root. This is a safety measure, for security.
You do *not* want Exim running as root, normally. It's setuid, so that
it can get root privileges when it needs them.

The remote_smtp transport is used for delivering email remotely.

You can't really change the userid with "user = ..." on remote_smtp
because it needs to be able to access the hints databases, which will be
owned as the Exim user.

-Phil