thanks for the vote of confidence geoff. I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root only and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is shauno Shaun Shaun here; but then again I might be wrong. Shaun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:07 PM Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. > Hi: > > I've never seen the interface spec before. This might cause problems later > depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at > least comment it out. I was going to repost detailed instructions on how > to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well > done). > > The permissions thing is to safeguard your password. Fetchmail will not > permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else. So > you will want read and write access for you and no-one else. The easiest > way to do this is: > > chmod 600 .fetchmailrc > > You could also do: > > chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc > > if you find that clearer. Either way, it gives the user read/write access > and the group and other users no access. You need these set or fetchmail > will refuse to run. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
