Hi!
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:28:32AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote:

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>As a second note, postfix as a standalone entity may be secure, but I

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>am not sure how secure it will be if it starts interacting with some

>other piece of software. Also, from the top of my head I can say that

>postfix's 'mailq' gets me the status even as a normal user, while that

>of sendmail does not (maybe I am wrong, and defaults have changed

>now). YMMV.

You can configure that, see

  http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

the authorized_mailq_users option.
That allows even more fine-grained configuration than sendmail (either

restricted to the group owner of the queue directory or permit all users

to query the mail queue).
>-Amarendra
Kind regards,
Hannah.