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Vladimir Vassiliev wrote:
 > 
 > > You have to run sendmail as root anyway if you want it to
 > > listen on port 25.  (Of course, other parts of sendmail
 > > such as the "queue runner" are running as user smmsp or
 > > whatever you have configured.)
 > 
 > Yes, but it's only listener. See confRUN_AS_USER.

You cannot use confRUN_AS_USER on machines where you have
local users (i.e. local delivery), because then people's
.forward files won't work correctly anymore, unless you
install procmail (or similar) setuid-root, which I regard
as a very bad idea.

Of course, if you don't have local users, then you can use
confRUN_AS_USER in the way you described, and then the
socket (and its directory) must be accessible by the mail
user.

Best regards
   Oliver

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