On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Under a typical Debian setup, you want to trigger mailfilter before > every run of fetchmail.
True enough. Or rather, you want to run mailfilter before whatever mail-getter you use runs. > Since fetchmail ordinarily runs as user fetchmail, mailfilter will too. Bah. Running fetchmail as a system daemon is a broken behavior in any but the simplest of installations. It means that fetchmail has to know the accounts and passwords of every user on the box, yet that same user has zero control over the security of that information. No, thank you. Run it as a user. Run it from your crontab. Let your MUA run it. Etc. > It needs to be able to find and read its configuration file as this user, > and write to its log file. True. As the user who's mail it's filtering. What if user A has one type of mail HE wants to bounce, and user B has other mail that SHE wants to bounce? > Here is one way to accomplish this: <deleted> Overkill, requires you to be root on the box, and makes changes to the way the package normally works. Complex solution to a very simple problem... easily avoided by not running fetchmail daemonized. -- Marc Wilson | Confidence is the feeling you have before you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | understand the situation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
