[SLE] Fw: [SLE] fetchmail
maqish <maqish@wish.net> writes:
But won't it try to fetch the mail for the specified users from the remote mailbox?? I mean the mail is send to the root mailbox already. for all users.. won't it try to fetch the mail from the remote mailbox?
Hmm. Maybe I didn't understand what you're trying to do. What I described will retrieve mail for any number of different users on the server and
it in their individual mailboxes on your box.
username foo there with password xxxxx is foo here
will get foo's mail from the server and put it in foo's mailbox on your machine. You can have any number of entries for different users. Is
----- Original Message ----- From: maqish <maqish@wish.net> To: Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>; SuSE Linux Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] fetchmail put that
not what you want to do?
Well you can see it like this..
i have an email adress <name>@maqish.wish.net <name> can be anything i would like to recieve all the mail at the same time af let it be send to the right mail box maqish@maqish.wish.net should be send to the box of maqish barno@maqish.wish.net sould be send to the box of barno and so on..
greetinx Maqish
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maqish wrote: -snip0
Well you can see it like this..
i have an email adress <name>@maqish.wish.net <name> can be anything i would like to recieve all the mail at the same time af let it be send to the right mail box maqish@maqish.wish.net should be send to the box of maqish barno@maqish.wish.net sould be send to the box of barno and so on..
greetinx Maqish
I'm not sure how to interpret this text because there are some grammar- and spelling errors, but I think I have a possible solution. Say you have a couple of email addressess in one domain you want to re-route to boxes that correspond to their users. user1@domain.com goes to whatever@user1.domain.com user2@domain.com goes to whatever@user2.domain.com user3@domain.com goes to whatever@user3.domain.com ...etcetera (That is basic sendmailconfiguration, that's why I think I might not have understood the text above too well) in /etc/aliases of the mailserver of domain.com (maqish.wish.net in your case), you put the following lines: user1: whatever@user1.domain.com user2: whatever@user2.domain.com user3: whatever@user3.domain.com ...etcetera and run newaliases to apply the changes. Maybe you don't have access to /etc/aliases. In that case, try creating a .forward file in the homedirectories of those users, containing only an email address of the receiving party. All mail for that user is then beeing rerouted to the email address of your choice, and that may very well be user1@host1.domain.com, etc. But I can imagine this is not what you want. Mayb you want to check the mail on maqish.wish.net every minute because you don't have control over the aliases, get it, and re-distribute it to the right hosts. That, I can't help you with, sorry.. ;-P Rogier -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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