Enesha Fairluck writes: 

> Good morning all
>  
>     I was wondering if it is possible to run the imap daemon as a different
> user...perhaps something like courier or who knows what else.  Having it run as
> root might cause some problems for me.  Are there any disadvantages to running
> it as a different user?  Any suggestions on how to do this?  I am going to need
> that user to automatically get afs tokens every so often so that it can access
> the users maildirs.  Any help would be appreciated :)

imapd must run under the account's uid/gid when it opens the maildir, 
therefore it needs to be root in order to change to the correct uid/gid. 

-- 
Sam

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