On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "permission denied".
Originally I was going to comment that mailq on my system (exim version 3.12) works as described in the manual and gives a list of my outgoing mails. But being a little intrigued I thought the bug reports for exim were worth a look. Basically, this aspect of exim's behaviour was altered in version 3.3 and the message you got is now normal behaviour. See bugs 109394, 107222 and 109619. Brian.
