Re: Procmail error
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > in root's crontab use fetch the mail and let procmail as root
> > sort those files into your users mailbox/maildir files?
> >
> > No wonder those files belong to root and your user cannot
> > open them.
> >
> > This line is for a different purpose!
> >
> > All of the daily status mails your box sends to root, will be
> > sent to your users spoolfile instead.
> >
> > As long as you do not spool those fetched email, no alias will
> > be used ever.
>
> I'm missing something here. It's user's crontab that is used to invoke
> getmail, and retrieve the pop mail. So I'm still in the dark as to why
> "those files belong to root..." and my user can't retrieve them?
Problem solved. I added "allow_root_commands = True" to the
[destination] entries in the getmailrc and that fixed it.
Rem