Re: Running fetchmail as daemon - mail goes to postmaster
Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:43:19 -0600
> "Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > > I couldn't get that to work when I used 'on this system', nor can I see
> > those as allowed 'noise' words in the documentation. What works for me
> > is just plain old:
> >
> > username <user-a> to <user-b>
> >
> > Where did you get the 'on this system' syntax from?
>
> I don't actually know - I have been using it for absolutely ages; I think I got it from a newsgroup message. I suppose it worked OK when I ran fetchmail as 'gsmh' because it didn't understand the noise words and used 'gsmh' because that was the user running it.
It *is* very misleading how fetchmail doesn't seem to complain about
totally invalid syntax! Actually, it acts like the set of 'noise' words
are not restricted at all, like the docs would imply.
>
> Now I have used your syntax, I get 'gsmh@localhost' instead of 'postmaster@localhost' so the problem is solved! Thank you very much indeed!
>
That is gratifying. You're welcome.
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