Re: massive fetchmail frustration
Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:
> $ fetchmail
> .
> .
> reading message 69 (2365 bytes) .. not flushed
> reading message 70 (855 bytes) not flushed
>
> The problem is that these messages don't show up on my home machine. For
> example:
>
> $ mail
> No mail for bkerin
>
> where this mail command has been executed immediately after the fetchmail
> comand above it. I believe my shell is set to alert me to incoming mail
> as well, and nothing shows up. Again, I suspect the problem is related to
> the fact that my user names on the systems are different.
fetchmail uses your MTA (sendmail, smail, whatever you installed) to
deliver mail. I use this:
------------------------------------------------
defaults proto pop3
user jens
poll mail.server.somewhere
pass XXXXXXXX
poll mail.server.elsewhere
user jrxXXXX there has password XXXXXXXXXX
------------------------------------------------
This gets mail from somewhere as user jens to user jens and mail from
elsewhere with account name jrxXXXX to local account jens.
I have to run the local MTA though with runq.
Have a look at mailq.
HTH,
Jens
>
> As far as I know my mail setup is as generic as it gets in all other
> respects. If anyone out there has a working setup for circumstances like
> mine I would love to see the .fetchmailrc file that worked for you.
>
> Some related questions:
>
> Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail
> every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are:
cron is designed to do this. If your box does not run all the time,
have a look at anacron.
HTH,
Jens
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