[Gloucs] Fetchmail and the list

[Mark]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Steve Searle wrote:

> Around 08:30pm on Thursday, January 02, 2003 (UK time), Roland Hinkley scrawled:
>
> > User names at the local domain get delivered fine, but cannot figure out
> > how to get the list items deliverd to a user. Any ideas would help.

Being me I havent read much of the thread..so ill apologise now if its
already been said (no poetry intended!).

if your trying to get mail delived to a specific user..why can you not use
/etc/mail/aliases ? .. thats how I do it (then again I run the mail server
and the domain so tend not to have to use daemons to retrieve the mail
(althought I do use fetchmail for some, and if you include an aliases for
the user spawning the fetchmail process I have noticed you can get copied
on it...))

alternatively, couldnt we all go back to carrier pigeons?

>
> How about subscribing to the list with a unique address - e.g.
> gloucs@painswik.freeserve.co.uk
>
> Then a .fetchmailrc entry like

or a shell script @ startup

>
>  poll pop.freeserve.co.uk proto pop3 aka pop.pol.net.uk:
>    localdomains painswik.freeserve.co.uk Envelope 'Envelope-to'
>    user painswik.freeserve.co.uk with password ******* is *
>    'gloucs'='fred' here keep;
>
> This should pass all mail addressed to gloucs@pains... to local user
> fred.
>
> However it might be easier just to use procmail.

I still think carrier pigeon..or maybe carrier penguin given the weather?

>
> Cheers
>
> Steve

Mark

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