On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Alan Clifford wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
GVLI> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:09:57 +0100 Anne Wilson
<cannewilson(_at_)googlemail(_dot_)com> GVLI> wrote:
GVLI>
GVLI> > Fetchmail is running as a daemon, from my account. It collects his
mail, but GVLI> > delivers it to my mailboxes.
GVLI>
GVLI>
GVLI> Run fetchmail from /etc/crontab rather than as a daemon. One
invocation as GVLI> you for your mail, another invocation as him for his
mail.
GVLI>
I run fetchmail as a daemon as root for a couple of legacy (strewth,
they've got me using that stupid word now) email accounts for the wife and
me. But apparently running as root is frowned upon these days.
Details available on request.
Following Gerald's advice, I'm running individual cron jobs, and everything's
absolutely fine. Thanks to both of you.
Anne
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