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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Michelle Konzack <lin...@fr...> writes:

>> 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!

D'accord.

At least there are ways to do it without making fetchmail UID root.

Personally, I prefer feeding everything through Postfix, because that
gives me Amavisd-new's virus scanning capabilities and decent logging.

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Matthias Andree