Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail Trouble

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

Richard Fletcher wrote:

> Hi having trouble with fetchmail, seemed to work well for about a week, never
> touched it and now things dont work anymore. Kmail can recieve my email fine,
> but I want a bit of automation. Can anyone help. Here is .fetchmailrc (which i
> keep in /root  and I run fetchmail as su) As of yet all I want to do is get my
> email without opening up kmail, perhaps get it done overnight or something....
> 

I use multidrop with Freeserve so mail delivered to 
user@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk gets delivered to user [at] localhost

I call fetchmail from /etc/ppp/ip-up so mail gets collected every time 
the ip-masq gateway connects the LAN to the internet... seems to work OK

in /etc/sendmail.conf make sure you tell sendmail to masqerade as 
icqme.freeserve.co.uk as fetchmail uses sendmail as MDA by default & you 
don't want a mail loop

DMicqme.freeserve.co.uk

#/etc/ppp/fetchmailrc (multidrop)

poll pop.freeserve.net with proto pop3 with envelope Envelope-To
	localdomains icqme.freeserve.co.uk
	user icqme.freeserve.co.uk with password <snip> is * here
	options fetchall

you probably want to put your anti-spam stuff after this

hope this is useful & not wildly inaccurate

Andrew

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