[Bug 241596] Review Request: maildrop - Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities

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Summary: Review Request: maildrop - Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241596


axel.thimm at atrpms.net changed:

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------- Additional Comments From axel.thimm at atrpms.net  2007-10-24 08:49 EST -------
(In reply to comment #10)
> E: maildrop setuid-binary /usr/bin/maildrop root 06755
>    (and similar lines)
> --------------------------------------------------------
>   ? Just to confirm, would you explain why these binaries
>     should have setuid/setgid?

See http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildrop.html for details, but in short:
Every MTA that runs as a non-root user need an MDA that is suid root, otherwise
you would never be able to put mails into users' mboxes/maildirs etc.

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