On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Kurt Wall wrote:
>% I am using sendmail 8.8.* & fetchmail 4.3.2 for handling our mail at the
>% office.
>%
>% This is what we do: put all expensive mail in a queue & then at a set
>% time dial-up our ISP, run a fetchmail session to download from our POP server
>% and a sendmail -q to send all waiting messages. All this is done as root.
>%
>% Now here's my question: Is it absolutely necassary to do this as root? Right
>% now I have given the root password to the office secretary so that she can do
>% this job, however am not too happy about the situation, I'd rather she not know
>% it.
>
>Just set it up in root's crontab and be done with it. Then, of course,
>change the root password.
Nope, doesn't solve the situation. Traffic to my ISP is sometimes
very busy and erratic. Doing an automatic connection is thus out of
the question.
Thanks anyway, any more ideas?
Ishaaq Chandy
