setting up email for linux.

[Shaun Oliver]

ah. that sounds like un common sence to me.
thanks for that little bit of advise.
I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on
Shaun..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.


> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I think the syntax is "user shauno is shaun here" assuming your local
> account is shaun and your pop3 account is shauno.  I don't have to deal
> with this however, as I run fetchmail as the user that it's intended for.
> This has its advantages - you can control polling for mail on a
> user-by-user basis.  Running it this way, you need only do "user shauno"
as
> it will deliver to the account running the process.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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