Re: Procmail error
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:32:54PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>
> I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop mail
> via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just
> installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the
> exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try
> to retrieve mail I get this error message:
>
> Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command
> procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by
> default)))
>
> I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could give
> me a heads up on this.
Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have
to, but that is a more general point.
> Rem
>
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