On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:41:47AM +0800, W B Hacker said:
> Peter Bowyer wrote:
> > On 12/05/2009, Laurent Le Moine <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    982424 août 13  2008 /usr/sbin/exim
> > 
> > The exim binary needs the suid bit set.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> '... when used on Linux'

'when you want deliveries to run as a user other than the user the
listener runs as'

It's nothing to do with Linux vs. BSD.  Please keep editor/OS/etc wars
in the pub where they belong.
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