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and don't have access to update the ticket.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, admin@??? wrote:
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811
> Thus, exim.c around line 4300 is right when not dropping the privs for
> address testing mode, but in verification mode. As this is equivalent to
> the normal operation. So my statement from above is wrong.
>
> But this arises the question, why we need root privs for routing.
To read .forward files ?
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Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge