[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
>
>> Horacio writes:
>>
>> > BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
>> > command?
>>
>> What are you trying to do? I can think of no reason that a user would eve
>r
>> need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.
>
>I don't get it, I am supposed not to use root except for (re)configuring
>programs/the system,... so, every time I want to get my mail downloaded I
>have to enter as root, or else I can't run the smail or sendmail command as
>a normal user.
>
>May be there's a way of doing it automatically by writing it somewhere
>(probably the same with fetchmail)?
The command to use for sending mail is runq, which is in an ordinary user's
path. (It's just a script that runs sendmail.) Collecting mail should be
automated. Either make it a cron job, to run at regular intervals, or
use the ip-up script to fetch mail every time PPP is started up.
For example:
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$ cat /etc/diald/ip-up
#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: ip-up,v 1.19 1998/08/10 06:27:47 phil Exp $
#
# Sample diald ip-up script -- GV
#
iface=$1
netmask=$2
localip=$3
remoteip=$4
metric=$5
# Set the time and date
ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk &
# Get mail
fetchmail mail.enterprise.net
# Run the mail queue
runq
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