[fetchmail-users] Re: Re: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Hallo Matthias,

Am 2006-01-08 22:56:51, schrieb Matthias Andree:

> It's been a long time - désolé. I hope it's still useful :-)

:-)

> Set procmail setuid-root if you trust it (I don't trust it though).
> 
> Better pick: Replace procmail by maildrop, compile it so that the
> fetchmail user is allowed to use -d, and install maildrop setuid-root.
> It will be a better match for courier-imap anyhow. (Maildir++, quota,
> same user database and all the nice parts of integration.)

Unfortunatly "courier-maildrop" is no option for me, because I have
setup a whole "office" web interface with php5 and the filters are
set directly in procmail.

The syntax of maildrop is driving me crazy and I have not the time
and LUST to recode all from scratch again!

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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