Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail Trouble

[Richard Fletcher <nospam [at] icqme.freeserve.co.uk>]

Sorted the problem now, it was a dns thing, and also involved incorrect
sendmail.cf. But I have managed to get it all working now, and thanks for the
suggested .fetchmailrc Andrew, it works a treat.

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Richard Fletcher
Sheffield

On Thu, 08 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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....
> > 

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