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* Fetchmail Run Script
@ 2006-08-07  0:19 marlowe
  2006-08-07 16:34 ` Wayne Marshall
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: marlowe @ 2006-08-07  0:19 UTC (permalink / raw)


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Thought you might be interested in the following page,

http://www.antagonism.org/daemontools/fetchmail.shtml

Cheers,
Patrick
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* Re: Fetchmail Run Script
  2006-08-07  0:19 Fetchmail Run Script marlowe
@ 2006-08-07 16:34 ` Wayne Marshall
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Wayne Marshall @ 2006-08-07 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:19:34 -0400
marlowe <marlowe@antagonism.org> wrote:

> 
> Thought you might be interested in the following page,
> 
> http://www.antagonism.org/daemontools/fetchmail.shtml
> 

Consider modifying your run script to run fetchmail under a
non-privileged account with a utility like setuidgid:

  http://thedjbway.org/services/fetchmail.html

Note also Chales Cazabon's comments regarding persistent fetchmail
security issues:

  http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html

Wayne


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