pop3/imap server - possibly stupid question

[Dennis Gilmore]

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

Dennis
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