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List:       fetchmail-friends
Subject:    Re: [fetchmail] @ symbol in username
From:       Jim Correia <jim.correia () pobox ! com>
Date:       2002-12-18 21:55:32
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On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 04:38  PM, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> Jim Correia wrote:
>
>>> AFAIK procmail is usually installed SUID root and changes its UID to
>> Indeed.
>> [localhost:~] correia% ls -l `which procmail`
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  83112 Nov 22 17:17 /usr/bin/procmail
>
> uh, your procmail is _not_ setuid! (Or did I miss to ironic tags?)

I thought I was reading t's, but evidently I wasn't reading carefully.

The man page does say though that

"If fetchmail is running as root, it sets its userid to that of the 
target user while delivering mail through an MDA."

> But much more important: You asked "If I am pulling mail for multiple
> local users, and use procmail as the
> MDA, what is the preferred mode?"
> The correct answer would have been: Don't do that! The mda Option is
> only usable with multidrop mailboxes, because MDAs only take one
> recipient address.

Maybe I wasn't clear with my question...

Suppose my fetchmailrc says

   poll pop.provider.net proto pop3
       user "jsmith", with password secret1, is "jsmith" here;
   poll other.provider.net proto pop2:
       user "John.Smith", with password "My^Hat", is "John.Smith" here;

and I'm using "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" as my MDA.

The correct answer is don't do that since the local mail will not be 
delivered correctly to the local recipients?

Jim


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