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Subject: Re: Fetchmail config help
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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.