General :: Fetchmail Services - Running As Root Discouraged
Sep 26, 2010
I have installed release CentOS 5.5 w/ fetchmail services. I've already configured the /.fetchmailrc in the correct format that I've learned from topics and I've checked also the sedmail running status. When I invoke the #fetchmail command this often happens:
fetchmail: WARNING: : Running as root is discouraged.
2 messages for user1 at mx.mailserver.com.ca: (1 of 2) (4353 octets) .....flushed
I have configured two NIC 's One for the public IP and another for the local network, I've tried to use the two IP's in the POP3 and SMTP settings of Mozilla Thunderbird but still user1 can't get messages.
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Apr 27, 2011
I run fetchmail to download all my emails from remote mail server to my linux server.
But every time when i run fetchmail -v i am getting a warning that " Running as root is discouraged"
I just want to know whether it is unsecure to run fetchmail as root user.
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What does it mean "Jan 25 11:01:32 beteduibsrv3 avahi-daemon[3308]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::226:b9ff:fefc:6ec4."
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I've already searched for programs which give the rights to the applications / unlocks them with root for a certain application ... but I've no more idea what words to search for.
Where is that **itt implemented? Is it possible to disable that?
How can I start the services without giving them root privileges?! It's a security issue after all.
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Last time I installed the ATI graphics driver on my PC, it was'nt working fine so I uninstalled that driver. I restarted the PC after uninstalling the driver but then, when PC boots and start running the services the screen just hangs and I don't get into the desktop.
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consult the fedora project support at [URL] for help.
check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
giving up
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xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error.
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May 2, 2011
I am using fetchmail for fetching mail from server by using this command:
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fetchmail -d10 -F -K pop.gmail.com
it work fine but it stops working after a while or does not fetching emails every 10 sec it receives randomly one time 1 min one time 2 min one time 30 sec and so on.
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Sep 30, 2010
I have one centOS 5.5 box recieving mails done by fetchmail service and it has a 5 client pc's,is there any way that the CentOS box able to deliver the mails to the 5 local network users that is using thunderbird as MUA.the mails is stuck in /var/spool/mail as I verified in the webmin sendmail settings
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Apr 3, 2011
I am using fetchmail for fetching mails from google to my local mail client with this command and config and it works fine and gather all my mail in my local root mail file and I can see them with mail command but I want to separate each fetched e-mail to different files with different names.How can I separate each email in separated files??
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Mar 29, 2011
My fetchmail stopped working for gmail. These are the error messages:
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Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: pop.googlemail.com fingerprints do not match!
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: SSL connection failed.
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: socket error while fetching from xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com@pop.googlemail.com
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: pop.googlemail.com fingerprints do not match!
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: SSL connection failed.
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: socket error while fetching from xxxxxxxx@gmail.com@pop.googlemail.com
Mar 29 15:31:17 cannabis fetchmail[8814]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
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Feb 4, 2010
I am using fetchmail to download e-mails from the exchange server in sendmail box Using Centos 5.4 with Sendmail. I can download mails from exchange but want to keep all mail there in Exchange server also, which option I should use to keep that mail there as well with the help of fetchmail? My config is here below , but unable to use "keep" option and getting in the logs error below.
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cat /root/.fetchmailrc
set logfile "/root/fetch/fetchlog"
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set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 600 .....
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