Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:09:51 -0600 > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know what you have in your .fetchmailrc (you really should have > > posted it), but have you looked at using the 'to' (or 'is <username> > > here') clause? That's what tells it what the local recipient username > > is. man fetchmail. Seems like it should already know that, but it's > > worth a shot. > > > > The default local username it uses is supposed to be the one you log > > into the POP server with, I believe. Does that user exist on your > > system? > > Sorry. Here is my .fetchmailrc: > > poll <smtpserver> > protocol pop3 > username <user-a> is <user-b> on this system > password xxxxxxxxxxx >
I cc-ed this to the list so other folks might benefit or contribute. But I took out any specific names that you might not want public for some reason. I couldn't get that to work when I used 'on this system', nor can I see those as allowed 'noise' words in the documentation. What works for me is just plain old: username <user-a> to <user-b> Where did you get the 'on this system' syntax from? > > > By the way, you're supposed to be able to run fetchmail as a daemon > > under your own username. That might make it magically work as well. > > :-) > > Yeah, I always ran fetchmail as soon as I logged on. However, to get it > started automatically on boot up it goes into /etc/init.d etc. and it runs > as root. > > I suppose I could manually start it each time myself, but it is far neater > to have it start when my system boots up. > Well, it's the syntax that's wrong, anyway, I believe. Hmmm, just checked 'man 5 crontab', and it says you could use '@reboot' for this sort of thing. Lovely thing, manpages.
