Chuck,
I've tried your simple .fetchmailrc, running as root.
To my surprice, all e-mail received as 'is gus here', 'is someone else
here' etc., will get delivered to root. (?)
Any hints to what I'm doing wrong?
Regards
Gustav
Chuck Mead wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter said:
>
> GS>Chuck,
> GS>
> GS>Had some good times reading that HOWTO. :-) My wife was asking why I was
> GS>laughing so loud in the bathroom... Hrm, nuff said about that.
> GS>
> GS>I start to realize that I need to run fetchmail to get the mail from the
> GS>external POP server. I let fetchmail give the mail to procmail. Then
> GS>what?
>
> Here's a sample of a multi-user fetchmailrc file:
>
> poll your.isp.net proto pop3 user gustav is gus here password hidden
> poll your.isp.net proto pop3 user honey is wife here password hidden
> poll your.isp.net proto pop3 user billy is gusjr here password hidden
> poll your.isp.net proto pop3 user mary is lilsis here password hidden
>
> The key to this is the part where it says 'user soandso is someone' else 'here'.
> It's making the leap between differing account names external and local. That is
> critical as what it does is tells fetchmail to adjust the intended envelope
> recipient to match the user's local account name (e.g. on your machine there).
>
> You would create this file as .fetchmailrc in root's home directory and then
> run fetchmail when you connect. If your users are all using a single remote
> account you will have to adjust your thinking and sort the mail using
> procmail. This methodology is defined in the HOW-TO I referenced before.
>
> The structure of events is like this:
>
> fetchmail gets the mail
> fetchmail hands the mail off to sendmail
> sendmail determines that the mail is for a local user
> sendmail hands the mail off to procmail
> procmail places the mail into the mail spool
>
> GS>procmail gives the mail to for instance the user <me>? If so I won't be
> GS>able to read it with NetScape. Right?
> GS>
> GS>Do I need to setup a local POP server here? If so, I let fetchmail
> GS>forward the mail to procmail that gives it to the local POP server?
> GS>NetScape will get the e-mail from the local POP server?
> GS>
> GS>Does that make sense?
> GS>
> GS>Gustav
> GS>
> GS>Chuck Mead wrote:
> GS>> It should help get you started... Q&A is fine, here or on mailhelp... after
> GS>> all... we're the web archive for both... <grin>!
> GS>
> GS>
> GS>
>
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