* Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010326 18:44 +0200: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > > Though running as user mail, as Henrique suggested, is way more elegant. > > It would be a great idea to have a solution for ppp users "out of the > > box"... > > There is one: /etc/fetchmailrc, and let it run as root. It is described in > the README.Debian, and a default ip-up script that will work even if you > have a ppp link and a local LAN is there as well. > > It is NOT the optimal setup, though. It is a setup that won't fail in > misterious ways (it does produce cosmetic problems, such as a failure to > start fetchmail during bootup if you don't have a DNS resolver at that > time).
root would have to update this file whenever needed. Users can change their ~/.fetchmailrc on their own. Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
