From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from goanna.net.au(dns1.goanna.net.au[202.139.184.10]) (2114 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:09:08 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: (qmail 4332 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2001 09:12:28 -0000 Received: from async-174.sydney-isp1.cisco3.goanna.net.au (HELO Shaun) (202.139.184.174) by diamond.goanna.net.au with SMTP; 21 Mar 2001 09:12:28 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01c0b1e6$8bb58f20$1800a8c0@Shaun> From: "Shaun Oliver" To: References: Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:08:49 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 List-Id: ah. that sounds like un common sence to me. thanks for that little bit of advise. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on Shaun.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > thanks for the vote of confidence geoff. > > I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root only > > and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is > > shauno Shaun Shaun here; > > but then again I might be wrong. > > I think the syntax is "user shauno is shaun here" assuming your local > account is shaun and your pop3 account is shauno. I don't have to deal > with this however, as I run fetchmail as the user that it's intended for. > This has its advantages - you can control polling for mail on a > user-by-user basis. Running it this way, you need only do "user shauno" as > it will deliver to the account running the process. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >