fetchmail

Igor Gueths igueths at attbi.com
Mon Sep 30 14:22:17 EDT 2002


Hi. On fetchmail-5.9.11 this command is replaced by smtpname user at host.

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> 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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