I wrote: > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as > well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery.
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > It appears that the fetchmail init script does something like this > already. At least on my mail server, it is running as user "103". Yes, it appears that my method (which I developed before Fetchmail had a daemon mode (initial version, before Fetchmail existed)) is obsolete. > I'm not sure why this user doesn't have a name, but regardless, it's not > a root process. 103 should be the user "fetchmail". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]