Fetchmail Configuration

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 03:31 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 29.11.2004 schrieb Phil Brooks um 3:26:
> 
> > how should i configure fetchmail? - there seems to be mention of a -MTA
> > switch?
> 
> No switch needed in the .fetchmailrc. Simply say to which local user the
> mail shall be delivered.
> 
> > Should I setup a specific user to run the fetchmail command,
> >   e.g. at the moment i've setup a user called mailbox which is used for
> > the collection of mail.
> 
> You can run it as your system user account. Just don't let it be run
> from root.
> 

I run it as root, and as a daemon.  (This allows it to fetch mail for
multiple users).
I use lines such as this to identify and route the received mail to the
appropriate users. (linewrap may be off a bit, but this is actually a
stanza and in my .fetchmailrc it is 2 lines)

poll smtp.server.com with proto POP3 timeout 200
       user 'remoteuser' there with password 'XXXXXXXX' is \
       'localuser' here options flush


One of these lines for each user/server it is collecting mail for/from
works like a champ.


> > Phil
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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