Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:22:19 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Anders Troback <freebsd@troback.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail error Message-ID: <20080708062219.GB90752@pcbsd>
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> > > Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system: > > > > I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop > > mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just > > installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the > > exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try > > to retrieve mail I get this error message: > > > > Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command > > procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 > > by default))) > > > > I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could > > give me a heads up on this. > > > > Rem > > Are you running getmail as root? Boy, I hope not. And I have this entry in my aliases file: root: rem so I'm not collecting mail as root. Rem
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