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Re: exim4 -> local mailboxes



On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:39:17AM -0400, Steve ? wrote:
> > 
> > You shouldn't need any reference to SMTP in your procmailrc. All you have to do
> > is simple. Have a procmailrc and a fetchmailrc in your local user directory. Use
> > fetchmail via the same user that reads the e-mail.
> 
> I run fetchmail as a daemon. In the /etc/init.d/fetchmail stands:
> # Defaults
> DAEMON=/usr/bin/fetchmail
> CONFFILE=/etc/fetchmailrc
> OPTIONS="-f $CONFFILE"
> PIDFILE=/var/run/fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid
> UIDL=/var/mail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache
> USER=fetchmail
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is USER=fetchmail correct? And you say mail ends up in
/var/mail/fetchmail? seems suspicious.

I dont run fetchmail as a daemon.

but 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow fetchmail' doesn't offer to allow you to
change it. :-( (not that I want to)

I suggest reinstall fetchmail and don't have it as a daemon

As a normal user:

chrisb@kan:~$ less .fetchmailrc
poll your.pop.server with protocol pop3
user isp-login-nane
password isp-mail-password

chrisb@kan:~$ ls -al .fetchmailrc
-rw-------  1 chrisb chrisb 74 2005-01-18 02:48 .fetchmailrc

chrisb@kan:~$ less .forward
|/usr/bin/procmail

chrisb@kan:~$ ls -al .forward
-rw-r--r--  1 chrisb chrisb 19 2005-01-19 23:03 .forward

HTH

-- 
Chris.
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