> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr.S.Sekar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] fetchmail use
>
> 1) In my networked machine above works fine. At home, there is only
> /var/spool/mail/root. No other file is there in /var/spool/mail. Hence my
> downloaded mail is still not accessible. How should I create the file
> /var/spool/mail/"username".
>
[[SureshR]] Create a user called "username" and /var/spool/mail/username
will automatically be created
> 2)In pine I get my "from mail address" with user name of Linux. This from
> address is not suitable for my outgoing mail.
> That is, if my user name in Linux is xxx, I get from address as:
> personalname<xxx......>
>
[[SureshR]] Use Roles in PINE, or switch to mutt which allows you to set
the sender envelope. Otherwise, create a user yyyy and send yr mail from
that user. Run fetchmail to direct all mails for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user
yyyy
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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