Procmail filtering

[jdow]

From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>

> 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.

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