[plug] fetchmail

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Wed Apr 7 16:31:18 WST 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:26, smclevie at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can someone please help me.
> 
> I'm setting up fetchmail to retrieve emails.
> I have a 'nobody' in /var/mail/ only...
> 
> How do I set up a mailbox??  I have several 'users' enabled on the Debian box... 
> 
> My config file .fetchmailrc follows, please comment as appropriate.

You need an MDA (MTA) to actually accept the main from fetchmail I
thought - well that's how mine is setup, I use sendmail.

There might be an option the make fetchmail dump directly to the mail
spools, but I was not aware of such an option.

Ryan




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