On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:32:54PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop mail > via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just > installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the > exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try > to retrieve mail I get this error message: > > Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command > procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by > default))) > > I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could give > me a heads up on this.
Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. > Rem > -- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
