Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-26 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: Jor-el [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. It seems to me you didn't read my original query. I did read

Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user on my system to have their own email address. To log on and collect mail, the 'hostname' is given

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Jor-el
Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. Regards, Jor-el On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail? I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the correct mailbox? You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procmail´

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procmail´ and ´man procmailrc´ for documentation). Thanks, Jerry (and others who responded). Your suggestion is

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Jor-el [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. It seems to me you didn't read my original query. I did read the manpage, -m appears to refer to the mail

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: As it happens, I found the answer in the Linux Gazette - they have an excellent article on Setting up Exim for a home network (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html I use a different approach, with fetchmail's