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Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?



On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> However, I didn't realise that doing this would cause potential problems with
> delivering mail.  Is this only if the mail needs to be delivered to another
> user?

Yes.  BTW, if your user 'mail' has 'mail' as it default group, AND since
Debian uses a sgid mail spool by default, it should be able to deliver mail
to anyone even if you are forcing fetchmail to call, say, procmail to do it.

AND I should add that when talking SMTP to a MTA (i.e. you told fetchmail to
deliver to a SMTP server), fetchmail can deliver email to anyone, regardless
of the user it is being run as. Or at least it damn well should be able to
do it...

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