Fetchmail Configuration

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Thu Nov 27 09:22:17 EST 2003


It sneds it to whatever user's mailbox that the fetchmail daemon is 
running as. so I run it as alex_snow and it dumps all mail in that 
user's mailbox.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:39:47AM -0500, Rejean Proulx 
wrote:
> I can see how it polls your provider, but who does it send mail to on your
> system?  In my case for instance, I want it to retrieve from
> rejp at rogers.com and send it to rejean at interfree.ca
> 
> In this case there is only 1 user id so where does it send it too?
> 
>  Rejean Proulx
> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> Ham License VA3REJ
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Fetchmail Configuration
> 
> 
> > I've atached my ~/.fetchmailrc. this grabs mail from my provider's
> > server and forwards it to my local mailbox.
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at
> > 10:09:39PM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > > I installed fetchmail and the fetchmailrc file seems simple enough
> except
> > > that where to put the password isn't clear when looking at the example.
> Can
> > > someone please post a real live fetchmailrc that works?  I just want a
> > > simple example that gets some e-mail from a provider and forwards it to
> a
> > > local account.  Too me, it isn't that well documented or I am looking at
> the
> > > wrong place.
> > >
> > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > >
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