Ray Warren said: >> What kind of security issues? >> > Sorry that is a little vague,I don't know of any specific exploits > but > Procmail can run any arbitrary shell 0r Perl script which will > default to > the privileges procmail has.So if you are running procmail as > root,by > default you give root privileges to any scripts called by your > recipes. > So the issues are the generic ones you have anytime a text based > configuration can be used to grant root privileges to an arbitrary > script.I do run procmail as root on one box at home to scan & > despam my > wifes mail before it goes to a pop3 server for pickup by her > windows thing. > Ray Warren Ok, I'll need a little time to wrap my head around that, but it does seem to make sense. thanks, mike
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