Re: Procmail error
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. Understood. But I thought this entry (root: rem) in my aliases file would take care of that. in root's crontab use fetch the mail and let procmail as root sort those files into your users mailbox/maildir files? No wonder those files belong to root and your user cannot open them. This line is for a different purpose! All of the daily status mails your box sends to root, will be sent to your users spoolfile instead. As long as you do not spool those fetched email, no alias will be used ever. Greetings, Marcus P.S.: FreeBSD for the win :)
Re: Procmail error
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. Understood. But I thought this entry (root:rem) in my aliases file would take care of that. in root's crontab use fetch the mail and let procmail as root sort those files into your users mailbox/maildir files? No wonder those files belong to root and your user cannot open them. This line is for a different purpose! All of the daily status mails your box sends to root, will be sent to your users spoolfile instead. As long as you do not spool those fetched email, no alias will be used ever. I'm missing something here. It's user's crontab that is used to invoke getmail, and retrieve the pop mail. So I'm still in the dark as to why those files belong to root... and my user can't retrieve them? Rem
Re: Procmail error
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. Understood. But I thought this entry (root: rem) in my aliases file would take care of that. in root's crontab use fetch the mail and let procmail as root sort those files into your users mailbox/maildir files? No wonder those files belong to root and your user cannot open them. This line is for a different purpose! All of the daily status mails your box sends to root, will be sent to your users spoolfile instead. As long as you do not spool those fetched email, no alias will be used ever. I'm missing something here. It's user's crontab that is used to invoke getmail, and retrieve the pop mail. So I'm still in the dark as to why those files belong to root... and my user can't retrieve them? Problem solved. I added allow_root_commands = True to the [destination] entries in the getmailrc and that fixed it. Rem
Re: Procmail error
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:32:54PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try to retrieve mail I get this error message: Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by default))) I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could give me a heads up on this. Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. Rem -- There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
Re: Procmail error
I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try to retrieve mail I get this error message: Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by default))) I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could give me a heads up on this. Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have to, but that is a more general point. Understood. But I thought this entry (root:rem) in my aliases file would take care of that. Rem
