[ale] Fetchmail

[Michael Trausch]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:54:38 -0500, Jim Philips <jimmyc at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 

You know what you could do, is set up procmail to filter and
redistribute the mail to the appropriate place.  It's dirty but
possible.

-- 
M. B. Trausch      http://fd0man.theunixplace.com/
678-522-7934        http://fd0man.livejournal.com/
fd0man at gmail.com      AIM/Yahoo:  MBTrausch/fd0man