fetchmail-procmail uid and gid

[ctrl]

I tried to setup postfix to do this and failed, so... let's try with procmail.

I want fetchmail to use procmail as mda and deliver mail to a maildir folder in /var/spool/vmail.

Everything works, but message files are created as fetchmail:nogroup or, if I run fetchmail as root, as root:root.

man fetchmail says... "If fetchmail is running as root, it sets its user id to that of the target user while delivering mail through an MDA.".

So my /etc/fetchmailrc contains

poll pop.server.com proto pop3
user "myuser@server.com" password "pass"
is vmail here
mda "procmail -a myuser /etc/procmailrc";

procmailrc says procmail to send always mail to /var/spool/vmail/$1

I get every single file... but they are owned by fetchmail or root, not by vmail (dovecot user)

What can I do?

Thanks

[dijetlo]

You might check to see if users belonging to the group "mail" can run procmail as an mda

[ctrl]

Thanks for your reply.
Do you mean that, if they cannot, fetchmail would use root instead of failing?

[dijetlo]

Thanks for your reply.
Do you mean that, if they cannot, fetchmail would use root instead of failing?

No I was looking at this

Everything works, but message files are created as fetchmail:nogroup

That's a fail, that's not the fetchmail servers default behavior when properly configured. It may be the source of your problem, it may be totally unrelated, The only way to find out is to fix it.

[ctrl]

oooooh I finally solved using maildrop )

10 days to get a working fetchmail-maildrop-dovecot system with virtual users on centralized maildirs.... argh

[dijetlo]

but it will work forever now....
That's why I love this stuff. It didn't used to come zipping off the CD into snazzy desktops, you used to have to build all that component by component but once you make it work...it just keeps on working...