Charles,
On Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 01:05 PM, Charles Benett wrote:
> > I then ran into a problem with conflicting use of ports 110 and 25, so in the
>meantime I
> change the configuration file to use different ports, whilst I work out what's
>already
> grabbed them!
>
> I don't know anything about Macs, but on Unixes, these ports are
> reserved for the superuser account. (Probably all ports below 1024)
>
Thanks again for this - I'm running on MacOS X so that's Unix too (BSD / FreeBSD
approx.)
I didn't realise that you had to be superuser to use lower port numbers. I've just
looked it up to confirm that it is the ports in the range 0 to 1023 as you suggested.
Perhaps this could also be in the README startup documentation. e.g.:
Note: most Unix systems will require you to launch James as superuser to allow access
to
'trusted' network ports from 0 to 1023. The default configuration file for
James
uses 'trusted' ports, but these can be changed if you cannot run James as
superuser.
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