Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Does user mail have 'x' permissions to the /etc/ppp directory? > > I'd suggest you use /var/spool/mail to place .fetchids and /etc/fetchmail as > the place for the config though (notice that /etc/fetchmailrc will trigger > the initscripts, while /etc/fetchmail will not).
Ahhh. That was it exactly. I did exactly what you suggested. Now it works. It runs as user "mail" and delivers the mail no probs to the only user on the system. >You probably need a '-' somewhere in that su line, or you'll run as user >mail with the environment settings for root (which might confuse fetchmail. >I don't know for sure). Here is the line I used: su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmail --idfile /var/spool/mail/.fetchids' mail it does have the - in there. > >Also, make damn sure user mail has group mail as its primary (default) >group. How do I check this? Here is what my /etc/passwd file shows: mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/sh Is that correct? Thanks Henrique. It works! and I have learnt something! Mark.
