Hi,
I am using sendmail 8.8.* & fetchmail 4.3.2 for handling our mail at the
office.
This is what we do: put all expensive mail in a queue & then at a set
time dial-up our ISP, run a fetchmail session to download from our POP server
and a sendmail -q to send all waiting messages. All this is done as root.
Now here's my question: Is it absolutely necassary to do this as root? Right
now I have given the root password to the office secretary so that she can do
this job, however am not too happy about the situation, I'd rather she not know
it.
What if I setuid both fetchmail & sendmail to root? Will she be able to do her
job under her own login without root permission?
Thanks in advance,
Ishaaq Chandy
