From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John Summerfied wrote:
I used fetchmail for some years, and the recommended way to use
fetchmail is to have it feed email into your MTA, whether sendmail,
postfix or zmailer.
Doing so allows fetchmail to poll several accounts and make deliveries
to different people.
jdow replied:
Old data. I use per user fetchmail as it appeared he was using it.
I simply have several copies of the indented portion of the .fetchmailrc
I excerpted for him, one for each account all feeding to one account for
further sorting. So I fetch from several to feed into one. Otherwise you
need to get fussier and run fetchmail as root leading to nebulously
undefined potential security problems.
Actually, if fetchmail feeds e-mail into a MTA through SMTP, it doesn't
need root privileges. You can create a fetchmail user and get that to
run fetchmail.
James, that's what I said, isn't it? {^_-} That's the way I do it here.
{^_^}
