OT a bit: fetchmail question

Ernie McCracken holycrap at cavtel.net
Sat Apr 30 14:57:25 UTC 2005


On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:10:04AM -0400, jack wallen wrote:
> now that my username for mail has changed i can get fetchmail to fetch
> the mail but since there is no user named jlwallen at monkeypantz.net on my
> machine - i can't actually deliver the mail locally.
> 
> is there a way i can configure fetchmail around this? or am i going to
> have to set up a user jlwallen at monkeypantz.net on this machine?

I think what you want to do is use "is <user> here" in your
.fetchmailrc, where <user> is your local username.

For example:

poll your.mailserver.com proto pop3 user "jlwallen at monkeypantz.net" pass
"xxx" is "jlwallen" here;

That line probably wrapped.





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