pop3/imap server - possibly stupid question

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Mon Aug 16 16:53:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:50, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Sunday 15 August 2004 10:24 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> > Ok Samuel, this default setup of Postfix is new to me. Thanks for
> > pointing this out. I will have to read the Postfix documentation to
> > understand the "various security reasons". I just wonder why the write
> > "deliver mail _as_ root" and not "deliver mail _to_ root". I will read
> > about that as I am much more familiar with Sendmail.
> 
> Mostly postfix will not deliver mail to root because the deamons run as user 
> posfix  who can not write to roots mail spool file as he can not get the 
> correct permissions  by default though roots mail is aliased to the user 
> postfix.  it is all done from a security aspect
> 
Mail to root can be aliased to any user or users.

> Dennis
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list





More information about the fedora-list mailing list