I dunno if this will help, but...
I thought this out. I have two email accounts on an external POP3 server. I
createrd a .fetchmailrc and placed in my /home/necrotica directory. I then set
up the following cron command to be run as user necrotica "fetchmail -f
"/home/necrotica" -m "/usr/bin/procmail -f - ". All new mail then gets sent to
/var/spool/necrotica. I then set up my email program for my root account to get
the mail from that spool for the rare times I'm logged in as root.
*shrug* Your situation might be different, but thats what worked for me. :)
-Chris
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm facing an annoying problem here that seems to be trival
> but I cannot find any good explanation. I've got fetchmail
> running from cron and a .fetchmailrc in my /home directory
> set up with 'chmod 0600'. The result is there exists a fetchmail
> process for a root and fetchmail for a user wich works well when
> invoked with '-v' option. Changing permitions makes
> fetchmail stop.
> It' a 5.1.0 vesrion on Mandrake Air.
> How can I make it behaving propely?
>
> --
> Michal Kurowski
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
