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Re: [fetchmail] @ symbol in username

2002-12-18 14:38:46
Jim Correia wrote:

AFAIK procmail is usually installed SUID root and changes its UID to
Indeed.
[localhost:~] correia% ls -l `which procmail`
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  83112 Nov 22 17:17 /usr/bin/procmail

uh, your procmail is _not_ setuid! (Or did I miss to ironic tags?)

But much more important: You asked "If I am pulling mail for multiple
local users, and use procmail as the
MDA, what is the preferred mode?"
The correct answer would have been: Don't do that! The mda Option is
only usable with multidrop mailboxes, because MDAs only take one
recipient address.