[Gloucs] Fetchmail

[Sam *turtel* Barker]

I realised my email was a bit gibberish. I need to use the full sam at ...
bit because of the vpopmail set up, it separates it based on domain. So
I need the full address to actually get delivery. I'll try doing using
collections stuf here sam at ....

Thanks for the tip.

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:11 +0100, Paul Broadhead wrote:
> Sam *turtel* Barker <sam at quadrocket.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > ... When I run fetchmail from the command line I just specify
> > --smtpname sam at trident.quadrocket.co.uk however when I try to add that
> > to my .fetchmailrc it complains of a syntax error on that line. Does
> > anyone know if I should be using that parameter in the file?
> > Fetchmail config:
> > set postmaster "sam at trident.quadrocket.co.uk"
> > set bouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set properties ""
> > smtpname sam at trident.quadrocket.co.uk
> 
> I'm no fetchmail expert and I don't really understand your problem but I
> have only ever seen a simple username in the set postmaster "..."
> string.  Could that be the problem, have you tried just sam rather than
> sam at ... ?
> 
> My fetchmailrc looks very different:
> 
> set postmaster "paul"
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 300
> 
> poll my.isp.domain with proto POP3
>     user 'myusername' there with password 'mypassword' is 'paul' here options
> 	 fetchall pass8bits mimedecode
> ...
> and other entries like that.
> 
> It's worked nicely for years.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
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