Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?
Phillip,
Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically,
the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication.
Regards,
Jor-el
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server.
> There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in
> the form username@hostname.dircon.co uk, therefore allowing each user on
> my system to have their own email address. To log on and collect mail,
> the 'hostname' is given then my password. *All* mail for that hostname
> is then downloaded by fetchmail - the problem is that any mail for other
> users appears in *my* mailbox (/var/spool/mail/gsmh).
>
> How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the
> correct mailbox?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
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