On Monday 29 November 2004 09:52, Phil Brooks wrote: > how should i configure fetchmail? - there seems to be mention of a -MTA > switch? It's the default way it operates. Are you sure you've read the docs? This was explained in condiderable detail when I last looked. A clause like this user brooks is phil here does name translation. Note: I have never used fetchmailconf; I was configuring fetchmail before the gui existed, and even back then the docs explained what you want to do. > > Should I setup a specific user to run the fetchmail command, > e.g. at the moment i've setup a user called mailbox which is used for > the collection of mail. _I_ run it as root, but operationally there is no need for that. Any UID will do, it does not need special privilege to read or write anywhere. > or is there a standard user which should be used when collecting the mail > form the ISP? by this i don't mean the ISP POP Username, im refering to > the local user of which mailbox the mail is downloaded into. -- Cheers John
