Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:08:08 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fetchmail config help Message-ID: <4010D668.4050809@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEMEFFAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEMEFFAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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fbsd_user wrote: >I have an registered domain name. The company that hosts my domain >name has an application that allows me to forward all my different >users email to an single account at my ISP. This was ok when all the >email was for me, but now the family also wants to use my domain >name. I want to configure the FBSD root account to run fetchmail in >daemon mode and retrieve all the email in that single account and >post it into each users separate sendmail mailbox. >I have the daemon mode working > My own experience is that daemon mode is buggy, and can hang periodically. I generally use a cron job. >But having hard time making heads or >tails out of the fetchmail documentation at >http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html#3 > >It kind of implies that I have to have an account at >my ISP called 'maildrop' for this to work. >Is that correct? > >Would this work >user "tomisp" with pass "tom722" is * here > >How do I change the user statement to do >the multdrop thing at my end? > >Would also like to tell fetchmail to use the >syslogd local3 facility to post it's messages to. > >This is what I an using now. > >set postmaster "root" >set no bouncemail >set no spambounce >poll mail.xxxxxx.net proto pop3 > user "tomisp" there with password "tom722" is "tomFBSD" here > > > Try: set postmaster "postmaster" poll mail.xxxxxx.net proto pop3 no dns envelope Envelope-to localdomains your.registered.domain user "tomisp" password "tom722" to * PWR.
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