[svlug] Fetchmail

[Seth David Schoen]

Javilk writes:

>      My fetchmail file picks up mail from two sites.  It tosses everything
> into the mail box of one account, regardless of where it was intended.  As
> a result, I have to sort the mail myself.  
> 
>      What can I do to get Fetchmail to sort the mail for me, to toss mail
> intended for root to root, webmaster to webmaster, and me personally, to my
> account?

You can use procmail, or, if you have different accounts, you can say "foo
there is bar here", etc. (as I remember it), or look in the fetchmail man
page for "multidrop", a technique which seems to imitate basic procmail
functionality useful for sorting incoming mail by recipient.

>      Or what else can I use?  My ISP does not support sendmail
> connectivity.  (Maybe I should get another ISP?  I am on Best.com.)

Sure, getting an ISP that supports ETRN would work too, but is probably
not necessary.  If you have your own domain, you could get the ISP to set
up virtual users for you with sendmail, but again, it's probably not
necessary, since procmail could do just about everything you want.
 
>      Also, I run several machines.  How do I persuade sendmail to accept
> mail from them?

What do you mean by "accept mail from them"?  Do you mean forward it on their
behalf, receive messages originating from them, or something else?

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   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
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said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the
nations." (1 Sam 8)  http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/   http://www.loyalty.org/

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