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fetchmail

Posted Jun 17, 2004 21:28 UTC (Thu) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: fetchmail by rfunk
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to mail clients: introduction

While I've got a developer listening... ;-)

I run fetchmail systemwide to get mail from my backup MX. The only way I
found to do this was to add a new user to my system, and add fancy a
procmail rule for forwarding the mail on. Fetchmail
supports /etc/fetchmailrc, but that file does not appear to allow delivery
to more than one user??

My solution works perfectly, but I think it is
ugly and it was a pain to set up. Anyway, I'm not sure how many people
are in the same boat -- most people
nowadays are probably are sitting on single user systems.

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fetchmail

Posted Jun 17, 2004 21:49 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

It sounds like you might want multidrop mode. Search for that phrase in the man page and see if what it says there helps.

If that doesn't help, post your intentions and configuration to the fetchmail-users@lists.berlios.de mailing list.

fetchmail

Posted Jun 17, 2004 21:55 UTC (Thu) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157) [Link]

Cool, thanks :-)