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qmail-lspawn is the one and only setuid root program in the entire suite
It does exactly two things:
Change its identity to the recipient user
Run qmail-local
What if someone runs qmail-lspawn manually?
Nothing; they could get the same effect by sending email to some user
In contrast, all of sendmail's giant, bloated, festering self runs as root
If there is a bug in sendmail, an attacker can often get root privilege
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