Re: Run qmail-pop3d without root

West <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.ldap
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Given the answers I guess this is not possible

But why ?


2008/10/15 West <[email protected]>

> it is possible to run this service whitout root account ?
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> I try with qmaild and vmail, i get : ERR: unable to write pipe.
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> Why ? Because qmail-pop3d need to change to user mailbox  and must have
> root privilege to do that ?
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