On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:39:17AM -0400, Steve ? wrote: > > > > You shouldn't need any reference to SMTP in your procmailrc. All you have > > to do > > is simple. Have a procmailrc and a fetchmailrc in your local user > > directory. Use > > fetchmail via the same user that reads the e-mail. > > I run fetchmail as a daemon. In the /etc/init.d/fetchmail stands: > # Defaults > DAEMON=/usr/bin/fetchmail > CONFFILE=/etc/fetchmailrc > OPTIONS="-f $CONFFILE" > PIDFILE=/var/run/fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid > UIDL=/var/mail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache > USER=fetchmail ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is USER=fetchmail correct? And you say mail ends up in /var/mail/fetchmail? seems suspicious.
I dont run fetchmail as a daemon. but 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow fetchmail' doesn't offer to allow you to change it. :-( (not that I want to) I suggest reinstall fetchmail and don't have it as a daemon As a normal user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less .fetchmailrc poll your.pop.server with protocol pop3 user isp-login-nane password isp-mail-password [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al .fetchmailrc -rw------- 1 chrisb chrisb 74 2005-01-18 02:48 .fetchmailrc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less .forward |/usr/bin/procmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al .forward -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisb chrisb 19 2005-01-19 23:03 .forward HTH -- Chris. ====== Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
