Re: OT a bit: fetchmail question

From: Ernie McCracken (holycrap_at_cavtel.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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    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@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@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@monkeypantz.net" pass
    "xxx" is "jlwallen" here;

    That line probably wrapped. 

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