Re: Exim as default mailer
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Bobby Donnell wrote:
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> I decided to move to exim recently for my MTA, however i found that the
> debian package does not set it up correctly for local delivery. The exim
> manual says that the exim binary must be setuid to root but I, as of yet,
> have to figure out where i should set it since it uses inetd to run. It can
> either be set in inetd, on the binary it self, or in the exim.conf file, or
> am i wrong. If someone using exim could help me out it would be greatly
> appreciated.
My exim is NOT suid root. It runs as user mail group mail. The mail group
has write permission to /var/spool/mail and the user mailboxes (mode 660).
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>
George Bonser
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