First, to address the fetchmail part of the question.
Why not create a file called .fetchmailrc into your ~/peter directory
and put in it the following:
defaults proto POP3 fetchall nokeep
poll pop3.server.com
user pfheiss is peter pass secret
where pop3.server.com is the actual pop3 server of your ISP,
and secret is your actual mail password for your ISP.
Now, I'm not familiar with pine (go mutt!) but I was able to tell mutt
(in my .muttrc file) to use my actual ISP address with the statement:
'set realname'
and I ensured sendmail wouldn't get confused by adding another line:
set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem"
where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my actual email address.
I hope this helped!
* Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000708 07:22]:
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Richard Miles wrote about, RE: Login Names:
> > >
> > > Ok, my Linux login name is peter and my e-mail login mail is
> > > pfheiss. Now if I
> > > receive mail fetchmail wants to put it to pfheiss and since it
> > > can not find
> > > the name it bounces causing quite some annoyances like cutting me
> > > off from
> > > this list. I put pfheiss now into /etc/passwd and all the mail
> > > flows nicely
> > > now to /var/spool/mail/pfheiss.
> > > If I send mail, pine and exmh will put FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > instead of
> > > FROM:pfheiss@.... unless I edit in /etc/passwd peter to ....false.
> > > May be I made something wrong somewhere.
> > >
> >
> > I am still pretty new to Linux, so bear with me if this is completely wrong
> > but can't you just create a pfheiss account and forward all of the email
> > from it to peter?
>
> I belive i have pointed the origanal question asker to the following before;
>
> edit /etc/aliases and add;
>
> peter: pfheiss
>
> Do not forget to run 'newaliases' after the change.
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
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