Yup, there is but this is using chroot to accomplish this. 
Should this not be a default that xmail runs as another user?

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Subject: [xmail] Re: User Privileges



On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Richard Mayhew wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have XMail run as another user other than root on 
> Unix Systems? IE xmail.
>
> Ie. Start XMail up as root, bind to the required privileged ports, 
> then fork to a non-root user.

Look at the XMail home page. There should be someone that did run XMail
as non-root user.



- Davide

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