On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:45:36PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> One more question. Using top I learnt that smtpd
> had 7 or 8 instances. Is it intentional?
> 

Yes, these are different processes handling different tasks.

Here's a schema I did of the layout a while ago:

    http://goo.gl/73UaI

And here's wikipedia page on "privilege separation"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_separation


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Gilles Chehade

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