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Re: Procmail error



> > 
> > 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.
>  
Understood.  But I thought this entry (root:    rem) in my aliases file
would take care of that.

Rem