Stan Ryckman <stanr(_at_)sunspot(_dot_)tiac(_dot_)net> writes:
At 01:41 PM 5/9/99 -0700, psalzman(_at_)landau(_dot_)ucdavis(_dot_)edu wrote:
the problem is that when fetchmail fetches mail, the mail gets delivered to
/var/spool/mail/mail instead of /var/spool/mail/root.
I think root may be a special case... I recall reading somewhere that
root mail is treated specially, since there is a case to be made that
root mail should be directed elsewhere and read by an unprivileged username.
Why do anything as root that you don't need to do as root?
Procmail handles delivery to root as it does any other user. I would
not call doing so particularly advisable, but that's his problem, not
mine.
Philip Guenther