On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Bill Moseley wrote:
bm> At 05:24 PM 04/07/00 -0600, Bud Rogers wrote:
bm> >Bill Moseley writes:
bm> >
bm> >> What I don't understand is how to do this. Seems like i could put the call
bm> >> to fetchmail in /etc/ppp/ip-up, but I don't understand how to run fetchmail
bm> >> as user ~moseley (so it reads the ~moseley/.fetchmailrc file).
bm> >
bm> >Have another look at the fetchmail manpage. I think -f in Miscellaneous
bm> >Options will do what you want.
bm>
bm> Well, I'm confused. I see how -f will specify the config file to use, but
bm> I don't see how to make it run as user ~moseley, so it knows where to
bm> deliver mail to that account.
bm>
Well, there's no real reason to make it run as mosely, if you use the
above, you can add a global fetchmailrc file to /etc with the correct
entries for each user (one line per user) on the system, ie:
poll somewhere.com protocol pop3 username somebody password passwd
is mosely here
(all on one line) which will deliver any mail received from
'somewhere.com' user 'somebody' to 'mosely' mail folder on the linux
system. Or you could just use root's .fetchmailrc file and do it without
the -f option when launching fetchmail.
Either way works for me, I usually use the root .fetchmailrc version on
my system.
bm> Thanks,
bm>
bm>
bm> Bill Moseley
bm> mailto:moseley@hank.org
bm>
bm>
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