No longer permit the exim user to be root. Fixes: #752

[exim.git] / src / src / EDITME

diff --git a/src/src/EDITME b/src/src/EDITME
index 02f2fead072862d253682929118c3b3fbaf1be4f..7f7f6b3a44e7c033124513f618251731f085779a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/EDITME
+++ b/src/src/EDITME
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Cambridge: exim/src/src/EDITME,v 1.24 2010/06/03 15:20:41 jetmore Exp $
+# $Cambridge: exim/src/src/EDITME,v 1.26 2010/06/06 02:46:13 pdp Exp $
 
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 #          The Exim mail transport agent         #
@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@ CONFIGURE_FILE=/usr/exim/configure
 # group that is used for Exim processes when they no longer need to be root. In
 # particular, this applies when receiving messages and when doing remote
 # deliveries. (Local deliveries run as various non-root users, typically as the
-# owner of a local mailbox.) Specifying these values as root is very strongly
-# discouraged.
+# owner of a local mailbox.) Specifying these values as root is not supported.
 
 EXIM_USER=
 
@@ -352,6 +351,15 @@ EXIM_MONITOR=eximon.bin
 
 # WITH_OLD_DEMIME=yes
 
+# If you're using ClamAV and are backporting fixes to an old version, instead
+# of staying current (which is the more usual approach) then you may need to
+# use an older API which uses a STREAM command, now deprecated, instead of
+# zINSTREAM.  If you need to set this, please let the Exim developers know, as
+# if nobody reports a need for it, we'll remove this option and clean up the
+# code.  zINSTREAM was introduced with ClamAV 0.95.
+#
+# WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
+
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # By default Exim includes code to support DKIM (DomainKeys Identified
 # Mail, RFC4871) signing and verification.  Verification of signatures is