Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!
I try to use fetchmail to get the mail from several accounts, some have to
go to specified users, and from one mailbox, everything has to go to all
the users. The others on the network don't know how to use linux so they
have to use outlook (aagggghhhh) to get the mail from the server.
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
> Are you trying to use fetchmail to get mail from several accounts into
> mailfolders for one user, or for several users? For one user it is
> easy, just run it as the intended user, not as user email. For
> several users, the fetchmail man pages go into a fair amount of detail
> on how to do it. In short, it's not a good idea. Get separate
> accounts for each user on the remote server, and run fetchmail for
> each user on your local machine.
>
> On Mar 14, Ron Rademaker (ron@taco.dhs.org) wrote:
> > I got a few question concerning, you've probably guessed it already: mail!
> > I've created a user email, every once in a while this user should use
> > fetchmail to empty some mailboxes (somewhere on a distant server) and then
> > use procmail to take it into some mailfolders. The mail should reach the
> > right user... HOW?? (If there's a better way please tell me.....)
> > I also got this little sendmail problem it won't send to other computers
> > then those on the LAN, some dns things. I told sendmail to use dns and I don't have a smarthost,
> > what else could it be?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> >
> >
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