Try this for a solution:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:22:28AM +0200, Gary Richard van Blerk wrote: > Does this mean that fetchmail is incapable of doing this type of thing > automatically? As far as I can see, fetchmail will connect to the server > and > forward the mail to your server on port 25. If this is the case, why can't > it keep the original to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and forward it user xxx. My > server is a dial-up type and the domain name I gave the server matches the > email address. Can fetchmail not forward the messages directly to your > localhosts mailer eg. sendmail? > many thanks > Gary > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User mailing lists <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 11:02 PM > Subject: Re: Fetch mail problems > > > >On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 08:04:11PM +0200, Gary van Blerk wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I've been using Debian now for about 2 years and still I am learning > new > things about it every day. I need some help with using fetchmail. I have a > Debian server running sendmail. I have a domain registered for mail only. > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> I can fetch all the mail quite well from the server using fetchmail but > the problem is that the mail is stored in the wrong mailbox. Whichever > user > executes fetchmail gets all the mail. How can I fix this so all the mail > will be delivered to the seperate users? Can fetchmail recieve mail and > deliver it to the users it was addressed to? > >> If anyone has some info about fetchmail, maybe a HOWTO or something I > would appreciate it. > >> > >> many thanks > >> Gary > > > >If I understand correctly, you're fetching mail from a multi-drop > account, > >and you want it sorted and delivered to the intended accounts on your > local > >server. > > > >There are probably easier ways to do this, but I'd set it up so that > fetchmail > >was run as a particular user (maybe set up a special account for this) > from > >a cron job (or ip-up.d script, if your system is on a dial-up) and set up > >a procmail filter for that user to forward the mail to the correct > account > >based on the To: (or some other appropriate) header. > > > >HTH, > >Mike > > > >-- > >Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > ---> NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) > > ---> Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) > > ---> CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) > >-- > >"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal > >and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if > >not asked to lend money." > > --Mark Twain > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >