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shared mode mbox & symlinks
Hi

I have set up GMail in shared mode mbox, and I am running incoming.pl as root. I tried making the symlink, but that wouldn't realy work: every time a new message is sent to /var/spool/mail/gmail the link is renamed to BOGUS.gmail and a new file /var/spool/mail/gmail is created. So my question is: are there any security issues with running incoming.pl as root?

Thanks.

Ivan
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