[Gllug] More fetchmail/sendmail questions

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:58, Andy Loates wrote:


> > 
> Couple of suggestions.
> 
> I use demon as well. On my .rc file I just have the Demon login name
> i.e. "mcmen" not "user at mcmen". Also I have no quotation marks around my
> user name. 
>

No, but I know this works - as if I specify "root" instead of "Adrian in
the final line then mail is successfully routed to root's mbox.

 
> poll pop3.demon.co.uk protocol pop3:
>     user 'mcmen' there has password 'nottelling'
>          is Adrian here keep
> 
> Also in Sendmail have you set up your aliases files for user Adrian.
> I'm definitely no expert in the dark art of Sendmail configs but to get
> my small network of users recieving their mail each user account had to
> have an entry in the /etc/alaises file such as "andy : andy" and as i'm
> the sysadmin an entry as "root : andy" etc etc.
> 
This sounds more like it - trying it now...

Adrian

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