Rick Knebel wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to run fetchmail as root and use it to
> get different users mail from an ISP?
> I want to start fetchamil as root and have a different line for each user.
Put a ~/.fetchmailrc in each user's home directory that looks like this:
defaults protocol POP3 mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d linux_username" fetchall
nokeep
poll pop.ispname.com username isp_username password isp_password
The above fetchmailrc config will retrieve the user's remote mail and run it
through procmail for local filtering and delivery.
Then in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (or any script that runs as root when you
connect):
for mailuser in `ls /home`
do
if [ -f /home/$mailuser/.fetchmailrc ]; then
su -l $mailuser -c fetchmail
fi
done
That bit of code checks each home directory for the existence of a
.fetchmailrc and runs fetchmail as that user if the file exists.
Tony
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