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Subject: Re: fetchmail configuration
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:59:16 +0000


Tony Coronado wrote:

> Fetchmail is *almost* configured correctly, I have it
> configured as a multidrop machine.  But all misc mail that
> does *not* map to an account I would like to go to a junk
> mail account (called junkmail), instead of going to root.
> I'm searching the fetchmail docs, but am no having any
> luck.  Any help/pointers will be appreciated.

Fix /etc/aliases then run newaliases to send the postmaster mail
to a different user than root.

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Subject: Re: PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3
From: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:04:36 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Peter Bantowsky wrote:

> Thanks, Deirdre.  I've been thinking about 'fetchmail' for mail retrieval.  How
> about sending mail via 'pine' + 'ppp' into a 'pop3' smtp server on the Internet
> somewhere?  Keeping in mind that the localhost is wholly stand-alone (sans LAN)
> with 'ppp' & modem as only umbilical to the outside world?  Essentially, what
> I'm after is doing via 'pine' what I can now do via NSC Messenger...
> Cheers, --kpab

You have your protocols confused. smtp is mail SENDING, pop3 is a mail
*retrieval* protocol. The two are different.

And why do you assume you *can't* do the same via pine?

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Subject: Re: PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3
From: Peter Bantowsky <peterban@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:12:41 -0800

OK, Deirdre, a reboot is in order.  True: POP3 is a mail
retrieval protocol.  But when the 'fetchmail' utility
retrieves mail from a remote POP3 server, it "delivers it
via SMTP to port-25 of the machine it is running on
(localhost)" (q.v. man page for 'fetchmail').  It would
appear (no?) that the SMTP protocol is operative in both
directions or, in any case, on both ends of the link.  Where
I've gone south (in my uninformed ruminations) is in the
conflation of the MUA and MTA functions (whose separate
existences are masked from the e-mail facility user in the
case involving NSC's Messenger).  For 'pine' to work beyond
localhost, both 'sendmail' (or 'smail') and 'fetchmail'
apparently must also be running, the former being a kind of
intra-MTA and the latter the inter-MTA which interfaces with
the TCP/IP PPP link to the external world...  Looks like a
crash course in network admin. is in order.  Already picked
up a Coriolis Open Press copy of Olaf Kirch's *Linux Network
Administrators' Guide* and printed out the MAN pages on
'fetchmail' and 'sendmail.'  Thanks for the help.  --kpab

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Subject: Re: PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3
From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:19:11 -0800


Quoting Peter Bantowsky:
[stripping off cretinous HTML formatting for what amounts to plain
text]
>    OK, Deirdre, a reboot is in order.  True:  POP3 is a mail
>    retrieval protocol.  But when the 'fetchmail' utility retrieves
>    mail from a remote POP3 server, it "delivers it via SMTP to
>    port-25 of the machine it is running on (localhost)" (q.v. man
>    page for 'fetchmail').  

	Stick THIS in your .fetchmailrc and smoke it.

options flush mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-"

	Problem solved.


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Subject: Re: PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3
From: Peter Bantowsky <peterban@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:54:20 -0800


Dear Nicholas...
I guess this proves the old saw "Ignorance is Bliss."  Until I know
backwards and forwards the innards of MUAs and MDAs and MTAs and... and...
acronyms ad nauseam, I won't know whether your suggestion for the the
inclusion of the command line (below) in my (as yet non-existent)
.fetchmailrc file is meant to be a Samaritan freebee or a sarcastic
nose-thumbing by a narcissistic basket case who's got a parochial beef with
HTML-encoded text, now will I?   For the time being, and because of my
legendary goodnaturedness, I'll lean toward the former.
Cheers, --kpab

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Subject: Re: PygmyLinux & Pine & PPP & POP3
From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:05:22 -0800


Quoting Peter Bantowsky:
> I won't know whether your suggestion for the the inclusion of the
> command line (below) in my (as yet non-existent) .fetchmailrc file
> is meant to be a Samaritan freebee or a sarcastic nose-thumbing by a
> narcissistic basket case who's got a parochial beef with
> HTML-encoded text, now will I?   
[30 USELESS lines that I ALREADY READ deleted]

	Eh, six of one, half a dozen of the other.

	It's a line from my .fetchmailrc designed to keep me from
having to install an MTA daemon on my laptop.

	And it's also a way that I can feel superior to you.

	Suffer, pope.

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