--On Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:21:37 +0000 Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Michael Salmon wrote: > >> You can delete them using cyradm. N.B. that root isn't necessarily a >> cyrus administrator, the admin users should NEVER ever read mail, if you >> do that sooner or later you will shoot yourself in the foot. > > Can someone elaborate on this? I'm a firm believer in operating with > minimal privileges; but this advice is vague and smacks of > cargo-cultism. Are there _real_ technical problems with this or is this > advice purely to mitigate the opportunity for pilot error? Most IMAP capable MTA's today do a lot of stuff without the user directly instigating them, an example of this is the creation of a sent folder at the imap root. IMHO this is a real technical problem. I don't understand the reference to the cargo cult, could you explain it please? /Michael -- This space left intentionally non-blank.
