Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > 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...
OK, I tried it. It seems to still not want to run. Here is what I did: 1. Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and changed the group and owner for them to "mail" 2. Changed my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script to be as follows: #!/bin/sh su mail /usr/bin/fetchmail --fetchmailrc /etc/ppp/.fetchmailrc --idfile /etc/ppp/.fetchids It doesn't seem to want to run when I do this. What is wrong with this? Nb. I do not have a home directory for "mail" - just the default settings for the usual debian installation. ie my /etc/group file contains: mail:x:8:mark and my /etc/passwd file contains: mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/sh Regards. Mark.
