Procmail error

[Anders Troback]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:05:04 -0700
Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:

> Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system:
> 
> I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers.  I fetch pop
> mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong.  I just
> installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the
> exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved.  When I try
> to retrieve mail I get this error message:
> 
> Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command
> procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0
> by default)))
> 
> I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could
> give me a heads up on this.
> 
> Rem

Are you running getmail as root?

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