Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I set up fetchmail to start as a daemon on boot, using a script Ross > Boylan sent to the list recently - it specifies /root/.fetchmailrc > > I have put the correct .fetchmailrc into /root, but when I now look at > /var/log/exim/mainlog I see this: > > 2001-01-11 00:16:54 14GVQE-00007w-00 <= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=scgf (localhost) > [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=4036 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2001-01-11 00:16:54 14GVQE-00007w-00 => gsmh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D=localuser T=local_delivery > > Although I do get the mail (because I have set postmaster to point to > myself as a user (gsmh) rather than root in /etc/aliases?) I don't think > it is right to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't know what you have in your .fetchmailrc (you really should have posted it), but have you looked at using the 'to' (or 'is <username> here') clause? That's what tells it what the local recipient username is. man fetchmail. Seems like it should already know that, but it's worth a shot. The default local username it uses is supposed to be the one you log into the POP server with, I believe. Does that user exist on your system? When I ran fetchmail > myself and used a .fetchmailrc in my home directory I saw this: > > 2001-01-10 07:39:41 14GFrB-0000yX-00 <= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=scgf (localhost) > [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=3106 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2001-01-10 07:39:41 14GFrB-0000yX-00 => gsmh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=localuser > T=local_delivery > > That looks much better. I would *guess* that in non-daemon mode it defaults to a local user of whatever you're running it under. > > I am using exim to distribute mail recieved by fetchmail. Should I move > .forward from /home/gsmh to /root as well? I'd try the 'to' clause in /root/.fetchmailrc, as a more direct solution. By the way, you're supposed to be able to run fetchmail as a daemon under your own username. That might make it magically work as well. :-)
