Re: mailq

[Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>     Greetings. 
> 
>     mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a
> queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq,
> because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "permission denied".

Originally I was going to comment that mailq on my system (exim version
3.12) works as described in the manual and gives a list of my outgoing
mails.  But being a little intrigued I thought the bug reports for exim
were worth a look.

Basically, this aspect of exim's behaviour was altered in version 3.3
and the message you got is now normal behaviour.

See bugs 109394, 107222 and 109619.

Brian.