fetchmail

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi. you need to add lines to the /etc/fetchmailrc file for eacher like
user kennyhitt to kennyhitt
You will need an entry for each user on the system.

          Kenny

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail. My
> question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon system-wide
> for all users.
> I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
> Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
> and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
> everything is configured as it should.
> I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine. This
> appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
> All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
> having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
> user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal with;
> mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get from
> there to here.
> So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
> light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
> reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm missing
> something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.
> 
> tia
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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