Using recycled bits, Ishaaq K Chandy said:
% 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.
Just set it up in root's crontab and be done with it. Then, of course,
change the root password.
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Kurt Wall
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