Re: rspamc / rspamd with getmail

* [email protected] dyn <[email protected]> [2020-05-21 02:22 +0200]:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> I want to fetch my E-Mail from pop.gmx.net and mark spam via rspamc but
> it doesn´t work for me.
> 
> I got this error message
> 
> getmail -r /etc/getmail/getmailrc.test
> getmail version 5.5
> Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Charles Cazabon.  Licensed under the GNU GPL
> version 2.
> SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:[email protected]@pop.gmx.net:995:
> Configuration error: refuse to invoke external commands as root by default

Running getmail as root is a bad idea! Either run it as $USER or
create a user, i.e uid=getmail ; gid=getmail to run it systemwide.

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/troubleshooting.html#errmsg-config-root-commands

Elimar
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