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Re: Strange delivery in postfix/procmail configuration



On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:16:35AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> postfix's own delivery agent can deliver to root's mailbox, but postfix

That's why it worked before. Thanks.

> will NEVER fork an external program (e.g. procmail) as root. it either
> changes UID to the owner of the mail being delivered or if that user is
> root, then it changes UID to nobody.

Makes sense.

Michael
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