On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:14 +0200, Fabien wrote: > Hello, > > I wish to get "Fetchmail Wake" works in my environment. This plugin send > SIGUSR1 to fetchmail so it wakes up when mail client grabs mail. > > For the moment "Fetchmail Wake" is executed by mail_uid (defined in > dovecot.conf) which is not enough to send signal to fetchmail daemon > (and access to fetchmail.pidfile).
Maybe have your plugin execute a setuid-binary that sends the signal? Or something else. In any case no, a plugin can't have root privileges.
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