Marc Wilson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:Under a typical Debian setup, you want to trigger mailfilter before every run of fetchmail.True enough. Or rather, you want to run mailfilter before whatever mail-getter you use runs.Since fetchmail ordinarily runs as user fetchmail, mailfilter will too.Bah. Running fetchmail as a system daemon is a broken behavior in any but the simplest of installations. It means that fetchmail has to know the accounts and passwords of every user on the box, yet that same user has zero control over the security of that information. No, thank you. Run it as a user. Run it from your crontab. Let your MUA run it. Etc.
???/etc/fetchmailrc is owned by fetchmail:root, 0600. Anyone who can read that file has root permissions and can just as easily read any .fetchmailrc that they want to.
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