Re: Fetchmail

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:25:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
I wrote:
Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user
named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as
well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery.

Andrew Sackville-West writes:
It appears that the fetchmail init script does something like this
already. At least on my mail server, it is running as user "103".

Yes, it appears that my method (which I developed before Fetchmail had a
daemon mode (initial version, before Fetchmail existed)) is obsolete.

I'm not sure why this user doesn't have a name, but regardless, it's not
a root process.

103 should be the user "fetchmail".

yeah. I need to find out why `ps aux` shows fetchmail run by user
'103' and exim run by user '101' instead of by their names...

A

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