On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:35:22PM +0100, jb701@uku.co.uk wrote:
> A not-much-user rather than a complete newbie, I've been using Debian for a
> couple of years. I'm now finally trying to get email working on my 486. I
> have a user "mail" which I have used to set up getmail. I use a dialup
> connection.
>
> When I connect I do so as root using pon. This works OK.
>
> Then I log in as "mail" and run getmail. This works OK, and mail is
> delivered to the relevant user.
>
> But is there a way I can run getmail without logging in as "mail"? How do
> I go about it?
>
> And do I have to run pon as root?
Adding your normal user to the group 'dialout' should perhaps help?
>
>
> - Joe
>
>
Hth,
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