Thanks so much for your help. Nothing changed. I guess I have to change my
user name from peter to pfheiss.
Puzzling is that mail sent to peter@server reaches pfheiss@server
Regards
>> 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?
That's what I did, see above. When the mail is in I have to copy
/var/spool/mail/pfheiss to ./peter. It works yet it's just not right.
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>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.
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That's all in place.
>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.
I had that from the beginning.
>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]>
No it did not. Thanks anyhow
Regards
Peter
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