> > 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
