On 15 Dec, Ken Yap wrote:
> You are probably expecting that calling fetchmail as root and giving
> the -u kendall will fetch kendall's mail. I have my doubts about this.
> What I find works is to do:
>
> su -c fetchmail kendall
>
> i.e. run fetchmail as kendall, not root.
No, I was running the command from my wife's account, and from the
shell script from my wife's account. With a set -x I watched the
script execute and fail in the odd way; but if I cut and pasted the
command at the bash prompt it worked.
So Charlie's variant of Ken's suggestion wouldn't (doesn't) work,
either!
> Or perhaps "su - kendall -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail" to get kednall's login
> environment.
>
> Charlie Brady
I discovered a small error in my description; what actually happens is
that when my wife runs the command via the script, she gets this error:
+ /usr/bin/fetchmail -u kendall -p POP3 mail.zeta.org.au
fetchmail: can't set up default delivery to kendall
+ exit 5
and only when run from the command line is she prompted for a password.
It can't be a user identity thing, as the command is run by the same
person, the only difference is whether it's from a script or not.
I think it's a fetchmail bug. What I've also just discovered is that
this works fine for me; the only difference is that my wife chose to
have a different account name at our ISP than she has on the local
machine... I'll have a look at the fetchmail source over the weekend
and let you know if I find anything.
luke
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