Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:05, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
wrote:
>Yes, true...
>I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root
> dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users
> are me!)
>
>Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said:
>
>Warning: Running as root is discouraged
>
>Every 5 flipping minutes....
>Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-)
>
>This didn't happen before....Kernels and packages are getting pickier!
> :-)
Then why don't you reconfigure your incoming mail to run as non-root?
1. fetchmail can be told to run as an unpriviledged user
2. fetchmail can be told to run as a daemon with every so many seconds
wakeup time, so you only start it once in rc.local or such.
3. fetchamil can interface with procmail to use procmail as the MDA
4. procmail can /dev/null obnoxious mail, and run spamassassins spamc
over whats left, and the SA marked mail is finally delivered to the
unpriviledged users /var/spool/$user/mail-file.
5. Then you can use your fav email agent such as kmail, to fetch from
this unpriviledged users mailbox and sort it, with the spam going to a
dedicated JunqueMail folder for later perusal to check on spamassassins
accuracy, or to fine tune its bayes database.
6. This gets rid of 95% of kmails lags because its single-threaded. :-)
>Lloyd Bayley
>Berowra PC Services
>P.O. Box 270
>Berowra Heights NSW 2082
>
>Ph: (02) 9456-0292
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>Email: lloyd@berowrapc.com
>Web: www.berowrapc.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:clive@clivemenzies.co.uk]
>Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
>
>On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote:
>> I slept on it and found the problem this morning.
>> For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail
>> -v'
>
>took
>
>> out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life.
>>
>> I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug
>> all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up.
>>
>> Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-)
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>
>Hehe :)
>
>Glad you sorted it out.
>
>FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in
>/etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing
> but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves
> configuring individual .fetchmailrc files.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Clive
>
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Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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