On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Kyle Wheeler <
kyle-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Thursday, July 10 at 04:39 PM, quoth TArak:
> I want to know two things about qmail, 1) why qmail-local runs as
> root(priviledged) user,
It doesn't. In fact, it should *NEVER* run as root. qmail-lspawn runs
as root because it needs to be able to deliver mail to any user in the
system, and only root can do that. But qmail-lspawn will refuse to run
qmail-local as root.
If your qmail-local runs as root, then there is something *very* wrong
with your install.
> 2) what is Iron-Port
It's a company associated with Cisco. Doesn't really have anything to
do with qmail. Check out their website: http://www.ironport.com/