Good evening, Am 2004-09-07 23:49:44, schrieb Martijn Brouwer: > Hi, > I have fetchmail running and delivering mail using maildrop as mda, > using this option: > > mda "maildrop -d %T" > > This works when the user who is running fetchmail, is the user who > receives the mail. As I receive mail for more than one user, I need to > have more instances of fetchmail running, which is a waste of resources. > Therefore I would like to have fetchmail retreive mail for all users at > once. On my debian system, the user who runs fetchmail is called > "fetchmail". > The problem is that in this user cannot read the ~/.mailfilter files,
What has ~/.mailfilter with fetchmail to do ? It is used by courier-maildrop. > which are owned by the respective users. Is there a way to have maildrop > run from fetchmail by another user? Or do I have to use a smtp server if > I want let fetchmail deliver to several users at once? In the latter > case, does it matter which mta I use? (I have esmtp because I want my > setup to be as lightweight as possible). Because I do not like to have a global /etc/fetchmailrc with all the $USER E-Mails I have written a script, which use the ~/.fetchmailrc from the $USER one after one... fetchmail is runing as root and works fine for me. > I hope you have an answer for me. > > Martijn Brouwer Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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