On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:35:59AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Jamie writes: > > using individual user ~/.fetchmailrc files is probably a safer and > > preferred way to use fetchmail. > > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as > well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery. It appears that the fetchmail init script does something like this already. At least on my mail server, it is running as user "103". I'm not sure why this user doesn't have a name, but regardless, it's not a root process. A
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