Re: Security of Cyrus IMAPd vs UofW IMAPd ...

[Werner Reisberger]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:43:44AM -0800, Rob Tanner wrote:
> (I know a lot of people swear by postfix, but I stick with sendmail 
> because I know the product and in this world of nasty hackers, using an 
> unfamiliar MTA is a very scarry thought.  But does anyone know, can 
> postfix be configured to drop root to some other specified user after 
> it initializes?)

postfix is designed as a set of programs working together as seperated as
possible. All daemons acting on the network side aren't running as root.
It's possible to use other programs (deliver ...) as LDA's.

 Werner