Re: [exim] Problem with exim-4.74 + mailman

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Author: Frank Elsner
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To: exim-users
CC: Phil Pennock
Subject: Re: [exim] Problem with exim-4.74 + mailman
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:00:34 -0500 Phil Pennock wrote:

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> You didn't read README.UPDATING or the announcement for 4.73?


Yes, maybe I misunderstand it :-(

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> See README.UPDATING for more.


|  * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always
|    strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and
|    run-time.  If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to
|    patch the source and accept the risk.  Here be dragons.


I have EXIM_USER=ref:exim in Local/Makefile.
User "exim" is uid 103 in /etc/passwd.

But the binary is

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root      864428 Feb  9 11:27 exim-4.74


Setuid to bind to port 25, I guess? Or should I remove it?


--Frank Elsner