From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 5:12:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DEA37B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:12:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14WHzh-0000FE-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:10:45 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14WI2v-000JGS-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:14:05 +0300 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:14:05 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Paijo Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Fw: can not retrieve email using popper Message-ID: <20010223161405.B72253@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Paijo , FBSD-Q References: <01f001c09d8b$80080c80$6600a8c0@benny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01f001c09d8b$80080c80$6600a8c0@benny>; from "Paijo" on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:26:42PM +0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Paijo [20010223 14:35]: writing on the subject 'Fw: c= an not retrieve email using popper' Paijo> Wash, Paijo>=20 Paijo> Thank you for your help. Sorry for not being more specific. I delibe= rately Paijo> created those new accounts because I have Paijo> another computer running that needs to retrieve this message using b= ob1 Paijo> account through the POP3 protocol. Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> Regards, Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> Paijo That is still not clear enough. But still i am sure you can use a better wa= y, as I described,=20 like creating a new user john1, and still use a .forward file to let john g= et the mail and also=20 give a copy to john1. your .forward file in user john's home directory would have these two lines: /var/mail/john john1@domain_name I am still assuming that your system is using mbox format (placing mails in= /var/mail/some_username) Paijo> ----- Original Message ----- Paijo> From: Odhiambo Washington Paijo> To: Paijo Paijo> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:17 PM Paijo> Subject: Re: can not retrieve email using popper Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> ----- DELETED ----- Paijo>=20 Paijo> The delivery has nothing to do with Popper. It is sendmail which doe= s the Paijo> delivery. Paijo> If you only want to backup mail, why don't you simply make a copy to Paijo> some_directory/some_file Paijo>=20 Paijo> In bob's home directory, put a .forward file which saves a copy in h= is Paijo> file and also saves a copy to some place.. Paijo>=20 Paijo> Something like, Paijo>=20 Paijo> wash:~$ cat .forward Paijo> /var/mail/john Paijo> /usr/backups/Mail/john Paijo>=20 Paijo> Depending on whether you use Mutt or Elm or some other MUA, there wi= ll Paijo> always be a means to access this file. Paijo> With Elm, you can do Paijo>=20 Paijo> elm -f /usr/backups/Mail/john (make sure the file is woned by user j= ohn) Paijo> It is also possible to open the file with mutt. Paijo>=20 Paijo> That is just one method. Don't mess up the /var/mail Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> -Wash Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> * Paijo [20010223 13:56]: writing on the subject= 'can not retrieve email using popper' Paijo> Paijo> Hi, Paijo> Paijo>=20 Paijo> Paijo> I have just created some new accounts. This new accounts were= intended as a backup email account for the other accounts. Paijo> Paijo> For example my existing accouts are bob and john. And my new = accounts is bob1 and john1. I want bob1 to receive the=20 Paijo> Paijo> same messages as bob and so john1.=20 Paijo> Paijo> I did this by manipulating the aliases file like this -> = =20 Paijo> Paijo> bobg: bob, bob1 Paijo> Paijo> johnm: john, john1 Paijo> Paijo>=20 Paijo> Paijo> And then I replaced newly created /var/mail/bob1 file with /v= ar/mail/bob file. Paijo> Paijo>=20 Paijo> Paijo> But, what happened is, I got this error message from the popp= er daemon when I tried to retrieve messages for account bob1: Paijo> Paijo> unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognit= ion modes Paijo>=20 Paijo> The delivery has nothing to do with Popper. It is sendmail which doe= s the Paijo> delivery. Paijo> If you only want to backup mail, why don't you simply make a copy to Paijo> some_directory/some_file Paijo>=20 Paijo> In bob's home directory, put a .forward file which saves a copy in h= is Paijo> file and also saves a copy to some place.. Paijo>=20 Paijo> Something like, Paijo>=20 Paijo> wash:~$ cat .forward Paijo> /var/mail/john Paijo> /usr/backups/Mail/john Paijo>=20 Paijo> Depending on whether you use Mutt or Elm or some other MUA, there wi= ll Paijo> always be a means to access this file. Paijo> With Elm, you can do=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> elm -f /usr/backups/Mail/john (make sure the file is woned by user j= ohn) Paijo> It is also possible to open the file with mutt. Paijo>=20 Paijo> That is just one method. Don't mess up the /var/mail Paijo>=20 Paijo>=20 Paijo> -Wash Paijo>=20 Paijo> -- Paijo> Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., Paijo> wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Paijo> Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Paijo> Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Paijo>=20 Paijo> The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -Robert = G.=20 Paijo> Ingersoll=20 -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. He doesn't talk bollocks all the time: only when he's awake.=20 --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lmIdA2k+MNyI/bERAtgUAJ966rsR8QaQclAoA8wCm5vGs4Rv0wCfcn9q b6E6M2LJ/6fCV9ecIf2mJHM= =8ZF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message