fetchmail

[Raul A. Gallegos]

The older versions of fetchmail might require the is command... for example:

rgallegos is raul

Meaning that the user rgallegos on the remote system gets delivered to the
local user raul on the local system.

Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: fetchmail


> Hi Scott,
> Recent versions of fetchmail have a keyword called "smtpname"
> which redirects messages to a specified user address. I have a
> single fetchmail running as a daemon on the root account which
> has commands like this in it:
>
> smtpname hallenbeck at localhost
>
> or
>
> smtpname chuckh at localhost
>
> or
>
> smtpname mary at mhonline.net
>
> Not sure what your version is, but check the man page and search
> for "smtpname" -- it should do what you want.
>
> HTH - Chuck
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, 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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