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List:       getmail
Subject:    Re: Using procmail as an MDA
From:       "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-08-17 17:45:14
Message-ID: op.uyth9ox11e62zd () balu ! cs ! uni-paderborn ! de
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Am 12.08.2009, 20:14 Uhr, schrieb Charles Cazabon  
<search-web-for-address@pyropus.ca>:

> Stephen Allen <sdagetmail@rowyerboat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It should be -- but getmail will also complain if the effective GID
>> > is 0.  You didn't include your configuration (it would help if you
>> > include the output of getmail --dump plus your usual options), so I
>> > don't know if you specified a non-root group in your config as well.
>>
>> Even though I've specified "user=", getmail is still trying to invoke
>> procmail as root
>
> I don't think it is.

Some systems/distributions install procmail setuid root, so that may skew  
observations a bit.
(I haven't looked at the exact problem as I've stopped using procmail long  
ago).

-- 
Matthias Andree

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