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Re: Setting up a cron for fetchmail



On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:53:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 
> Anyone care to comment on the security issues of running fetchmail as
> root? 
> 

I've never needed to.  I run fetchmail out-of-the-box as a daemon with
the fechmailrc in /etc (no-per-user fetchmail).   It just works.

What errors do you get?  Send us your fetchmailrc (with the password and
other sensitive things XXX'd out.  Also, ensure that
/etc/default/fetchmail has START_DAEMON=yes.

Doug.




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