Steve,
> My mail fetcher runs from root via the crontab. To get mail to my user
> account I have placed a .forward file in /root which just has the name of
> the user account. In the user account I have the .procmailrc file. Is this
> correct?
This should work. It is usually considered a security risk to fetch
mail as root since processes in the .procmailrc file will now run as root.
It is equivalent to giving the new fellow in the mail room keys to all the
confidential file cabinets.
See http://www.tir.com/~worsel/linux/faq
/
/scientificConfiguration.html
/etc.fetchmailrc.txt
/scientificConfiguration.html#permissions
for a demonstration of mail reception by an unpriveleged user.
Hopefully helpful,
--
Robert Meier
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