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Re: Permissions and delivery of LAN email by exim



On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:20:09PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> AIUI exim should be able to deliver emails into a user's mbox, but
> I'm confused about how exim is meant to do that, because it runs as
> user Debian-exim, but mailbox permissions are normally group:mail.

I don't know much about exim4, but:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1241412 Jul 20 07:35 /usr/sbin/exim4

That setuid bit means it *can* become you in order to deliver a message
to your inbox.


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