Re: [fetchmail-users] Running fetchmail as root for all users

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

Stephen Allen <fet...@ro...> writes:

> Thanks Rob, I take note about not running it as root and will fix that
> ASAP.  My questions was mainly aimed at, should I run one instance of
> fetchmail to poll all POP3 accounts for all 8 users, or should I set up
> a seperate instance per-user?  And I thought it might be significant to
> say that the users cannot log in via a shell.

If fetchmail is forwarding via SMTP (the default) or LMTP (note that
file permissions apply when forwarding into a unix-domain LMTP socket),
there is:

- no need to run fetchmail as root, and

- no need that the recipients can log into a shell.

-- 
Matthias Andree