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Re: Exim wierdness



On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 04:47:37PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> > well, I get an error of: "exim: permission denied" when I run runq as
> > a non-root user. smail was not like this. This makes sense, I am just
> > used to doing things a certain way.
> 
> Oops... it looks like you need to add yourself to group "mail" in order
> to do that.  It's been long enough that I forgot all about doing that.

I thought of that, but the exim program is owned by root.root, not root.mail,
so why does adding a user to the mail group work?


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