Re: [LUG] fetchmail

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> 
> I'm moving the mail to fetchmail procmail sendmail etc on SuSE 7.2

Don't sendmail - use Postfix.

> The first two lines of the fetchmail output below perplex me.  Running as
> root.
> Any hint please?

Hmm I doubt it needs to run as root. Think harder.
 
> fetchmail: about to deliver with: $sendmail akm
> sh: akm: command not found
> #**************************************.****************************fetchmail:
> SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

SIGPIPE - broken pipe or no reader (man 7 signal).

My guess is you were suppose to define "$sendmail" somewhere, so
it could create a sendmail process to use for delivery. If it
feeds mail into a sendmail process it almost certainly could run
as someone less important - like urm "nobody" *8-)

I've no idea what the akm does.

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