From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lrxms.net ([66.92.147.165] helo=lrxms.lrxms.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vcCL-00022m-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:25:17 -0400 Received: from apollo.lrxms.net (postfix@apollo.lrxms.net [192.168.1.10]) by lrxms.lrxms.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g8TBOls19460 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:24:47 -0400 Received: by apollo.lrxms.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F133B37C66; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:24:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:24:44 -0400 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20020929112444.GB13975@lrxms.net> References: <20020928165359.GA3468@lrxms.net> <20020928184509.GA16841@lrxms.net> <20020929115649.A27636@joana.gotss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020929115649.A27636@joana.gotss.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: showell@lrxms.net (Scott Howell) Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Kerry, Maybe I'm on the wrong track all together. Here is my setup and tell me what you think. I could use imap or something perhaps, but I choose not to do so for any hosts on my network and if I wish to get mail from outside, I'd rather pull it all down instead of using imap. Ok, my box@domain is the machin I sit at and twiddle my thumbs, remote@mydomain is the server where mail is sent and thus the machine I pull mail down from. What I did is to use Fetchmail to pop the mail from remote@mydomain from, and of course mymybox@domain is where I read the excellent offersing and reply to them from. I assume what your saying here is the following is the better method for redirecting mail as opposed to using the smtpname directive which btw, works fine. I have nto of course tried this with another user's account and maybe this is the problem I'll run into. So, is there in fact a better way to do what I want? I run Postfix here which the mail is sent out on back to remote@mydomain. If there is a better way please do tell. I'm always open to better methods. I started down this road because I wanted some means for mail to hit this machine regardless if I was logged into it or not being as I do not grab mail from the outside at this point, but am keeping that option open by turning off what method and on when I wish. I checked out Fetchmail running as itself in a "system-wide" method and I couldn't get the mail from /var/mail/fetchmail file into my personal /var/mail/showell mailbox. The smtpname directive solved this problem. So, your method is the same or different? I'll look up that info you provided to see the differences. thanks Scott