Re: Need some very very basic help with Maildrop please

Brian,
>> In this case, I believe that it's normal for maildrop, look:
>
> Not sure which point exactly you are referring to above?
It's normal that maildrop refuse to delivery an e-mail to user "brian" 
been called by user "fetchmail"...
>
>> # man maildrop
>> ... -d user
>> .... In all cases, the -d option is allowed if user is the same user 
>> who is running maildrop. 
> Yeah read that, but I must say I dont understand it. Fetchmal runs 
> with USER= Fetchmail
> So if the -d parm can only be the same as the USER running maildrop, 
> then I could only use fetchmail as the user there. True?
... and this is normal too.
There is a reason for all this restriction... maildrop usually is set 
SUID, so it's a big risk for the system to allow anyone to call it, 
imagine that someEvilUser wants to make something bad with you, he could 
just run something like that:
while [ 1 ] ; do
   echo "ByeByeHardDrive" | maildrop -d brian
done

After some time you would have no more free space on your HD! :-D

That is the reason that maildrop allow only a fell users to call it. 
Usually, only root and mail users can call maildrop with -d parameter 
setted to something. I believe that you can specify a list of valid 
users on compile time, but I'm not really sure.

Another idea that I can give to you is to try to run fetchmail as "mail" 
user, maybe it works.
>
>
> I am the only one that has access to the server, so I can try it like 
> that. But I assume it must be possible with a different user.
Also... try to run fetchmail with your user... as you're the only one 
acessing it, it might work.

Good luck!

Fábio Catunda.

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