[Gloucs] Fetchmail and the list

[Will Roe]

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Yep. Good old helpfull replies from the LUG. I'm all for carrier
penguins though ;)

Regards,
Will

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:16:55PM +0000 or thereabouts, Mark wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Steve Searle wrote:
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> > Around 08:30pm on Thursday, January 02, 2003 (UK time), Roland Hinkley =
scrawled:
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> > > 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.
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> Being me I havent read much of the thread..so ill apologise now if its
> already been said (no poetry intended!).
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> 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...))
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> alternatively, couldnt we all go back to carrier pigeons?
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> >
> > How about subscribing to the list with a unique address - e.g.
> > gloucs@painswik.freeserve.co.uk
> >
> > Then a .fetchmailrc entry like
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> or a shell script @ startup
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> >
> >  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'=3D'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.
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> I still think carrier pigeon..or maybe carrier penguin given the weather?
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> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
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> Mark
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