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From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@sgtnet.com.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:01:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002c01c0b11c$690af3e0$1800a8c0@Shaun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103192200030.983-100000@data.home>

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@uq.net.au>
To: <speakup@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.
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Shaun Oliver
 ` John Covici
   ` Shaun Oliver
     ` Geoff Shang
       ` Tim Burgess
       ` Buddy Brannan
         ` Geoff Shang
       ` Shaun Oliver [this message]
         ` Geoff Shang
           ` Shaun Oliver

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