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  From: Adrian Butterworth <adrian@econ-outlook.com.au>
  To  : Benjamin Close <benjsc@senet.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:11:02 +1030

Re: Sendmail Problems

Benjamin
you most likely are running fetchmail while you are root
fetchmail doesn't need to be run as root
create a file .fetchmailrc in your user level home directory
with a line that looks like:
 poll senet.com.au protocol pop3 user benjsc with password XXXXXX is
benjamin here
chmod it 600 
then just run fetchmail as a userlevel process
. note the "is fred here" syntax.
. you can collect mail from any server/user you know the passwords for
  by adding multiple lines like the above.
. you can use the "is fred here" syntax to put them
  in any users mailbox (you don't need to be root
  just like you dont need to be root to mail someone!!)
. This is all good because 1 fetchmail running in demon mode
  can collect email for many local users, from many servers accounts.
. to run as a demon log on as yourself (not root) and 
  fetchmail -d 3600 -t 300
  this will drop into the background & check your mail every hour
  (3600 secs) until you next reboot or kill it. Choose your own
  time to suit your needs. The -t 300
  tells it to timeout after 300 secs on any retrieval
  this stops fetchmail stalling on a dead server 
- great transition tool
Regards
Adrian

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