Re: [edlug] help with sendmail

[Alistair J Ross <ajross@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi Paul,

	I haven't used fetchmail in a while but:
	
> user karachi pass <isppassword> to
> paul.lewis=plewis
> john.lewis=jlewis
> etc. etc.,
>
Does seem to sound incorrect, i remember it being something like:

user karachi pass <isppassword> 
paul.lewis is plewis here
john.lewis is jlewis here
etc etc 

The man page for fetchmail is v. in depth and very good actually. It is your
best starting point.

I used to have matching account names on my pop3 (at the isp)  as to my local
unix accounts so i simply did:

set daemon 125
set syslog
poll "pop3server.tld" proto pop3;
        localdomains my.localdomain.tld;
	        user "pop3username", with password "pass", is * here;

put simply this means:

automatically poll pop3 in daemon mode every 125 seconds, log to syslogd, poll
the pop3 server mentioned, using pop3 proto. Log in with user and pass
specified and map them to the accounts on your local machine (, is * here).

HTH,

	Alistair J. Ross
 Paul Lewis Said (paul.lewis@xxx.xxx.xxx):

> 
> Would anybody give me some pointers about how to get my mail system 
> working the way
> I would like it to(tm)
> 
> Fetchmail collects mail from my isp account 'karachi@xxx.xxx.xxx' the 
> emails arrive there in the form 
> '<firstname>,<lastname>@karachi.freeuk.com. Really simple fetchmailrc 
> file below,
> 
> user karachi pass <isppassword> to
> paul.lewis=plewis
> john.lewis=jlewis
> etc. etc.,
> 
> Everything is going to the postmaster account I guess because fetchmail 
> does not know about users paul.lewis, john.lewis etc.
> 
> Anyway I was thinking sendmail might be able to sort the traffic using 
> the 'virtusertable' but this does not seem to be having any effect. 
> Perhaps fetchmail has already sent stuff to postmaster so it is not 
> going to be sorted further by sendmail.
> 
> Any suggestions to get this working? 
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Alistair J. Ross
IT Consultancy, Internet & Open Source Specialist
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