[ale] Fetchmail

[Jim Philips]

I have two users on this box: my wife and me. If I set up Fetchmail to pick up 
mail from Speedfactory, it only appends mail to the queue belonging to the 
user who invoked Fetchmail, i.e. if root invoked Fetchmail, all retrieved 
mail ends up in root's mail queue. How do I get around this. In running 
fetchmailconfig, I am asked the local name of the user whose mail is being 
retrieved from Speedfactory's POP server. And the log below seems to show 
that user being recognized. But everything still goes to root. Are there any 
how-to's out there that explain how to do this? I've been looking for several 
days.

fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.speedfactory.net (protocol POP3) at Tue 15 Mar 
2005 08:45:46 PM EST: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK <19948.1110937538 at duchess.speedfactory.net>
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR authorization first
fetchmail: authorization first
fetchmail: Repoll immediately on jimmyc at mail.speedfactory.net
fetchmail: POP3< +OK <19952.1110937539 at duchess.speedfactory.net>
fetchmail: POP3> USER jimmyc
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1801
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for jimmyc at mail.speedfactory.net (1801 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1801
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
reading message jimmyc at mail.speedfactory.net:1 of 1 (1801 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.12.11; Tue, 
15 Mar 2005 20:45:49 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], 
pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DELIVERBY
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<jphilips_2000 at yahoo.com> SIZE=1801
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <jphilips_2000 at yahoo.com>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<postmaster at localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <postmaster at localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
#*********fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 j2G1jnix025950 Message accepted for delivery
 flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.speedfactory.net (protocol POP3) at Tue 15 Mar 
2005 08:45:49 PM EST: poll completed
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.speedfactory.net (protocol POP3) at Tue 15 Mar 
2005 08:45:49 PM EST: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK <20115.1110937542 at duchess.speedfactory.net>
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR authorization first
fetchmail: authorization first
fetchmail: Repoll immediately on irinamaslova at mail.speedfactory.net
fetchmail: POP3< +OK <20130.1110937542 at duchess.speedfactory.net>
fetchmail: POP3> USER irinamaslova
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1818
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for irinamaslova at mail.speedfactory.net (1818 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1818
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
reading message irinamaslova at mail.speedfactory.net:1 of 1 (1818 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.12.11; Tue, 
15 Mar 2005 20:45:53 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], 
pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DELIVERBY
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<jphilips_2000 at yahoo.com> SIZE=1818
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <jphilips_2000 at yahoo.com>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<postmaster at localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <postmaster at localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
#*********fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 j2G1jr0F025978 Message accepted for delivery
 flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.speedfactory.net (protocol POP3) at Tue 15 Mar 
2005 08:45:53 PM EST: poll completed
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
Done.