I collect about 2 doz. accts from 2 (soon to be 3)domains. I was forced
to set up a dummy user (mailrelay) that fetchmail delivers all mail to.
This account has a .procmailrc which then sorts the mail and retransmits
to the appropriate local user.
Yan
Sim wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > >You'll need fetchmail to download the mails and pass them to qmail fo
> > >rlocal delivery. However, this is a very difficult thing to get set
> > >up - I did have it working once, but now its broken and all incoming
> > >mail is not recognised and passed to postmaster
> >
> > For a sample .fetchmailrc, see:
> >
> > http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#fetchmail
>
> This is more or less what I have, but it does not achieve my goal. I have a
> single mailbox, M, from my ISP with two aliases X and Y (in the form of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I want these to be delivered to x and y
> (shortenings of our first names) on my linux box. Y's mails are always
> adressed only to Y, but X receives mails from various listservs etc.
>
> I thought the way to do it was to run fetchmail as deamon from rc.local with
> /etc/.fetchmailrc
>
> poll mail.tvd.be proto pop3 nodns
> user M with password P is * here
> fetchall forcecr keep to * here
>
> and have a .qmail-X pointing to x and .qmail-Y pointing to y in ~alias. But
> this does not deliver the results. What would you recommend?
>
> Simon
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