On 21-Oct-2001 Arend Meetsma wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Marco Calistri wrote:
> 
>
> On 13-Oct-2001 Chris Kloiber[CK] wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Marco Calistri[MC] wrote:
>
MC:Hello,have you a cure to eliminate these kind of errors ?:

MC:X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match
MC:any local name

CK:run fetchmailconf, and tell it what local username gets the mail from the
CK:[EMAIL PROTECTED] account.
--
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.
[root@earth root]# rm -rf /bin/laden

MC:Chris,the fact is that I use fetchmail to fetch from my ISP pop3,
MC:then retrieved mail is passed to local SMTP (qmail);
MC:pratically all mail arriving is destinated to me (my username).

MC:I think that specify local username for EVERY account would be really
MC:difficult.

MC:Have you a "raw" example for ~/.fetchmailrc?

MC:Thanks! --Marco
 
> Hi Marco,
> 
> I use fetchmail the same way you describe, and it always sends the mail to
> my user. Are you having root run fetchmail, or is the user running it?

Hi Arend,I run fetchmail as user

> Perhaps something here helps, from man fetchmail:
>        Example:
> 
>          poll pop.provider.net protocol pop3 username "jsmith" password
> "secret1"
> 
>        Or, using some abbreviations:
> 
>          poll pop.provider.net proto pop3 user "jsmith" password "secret1"
> 
>        Multiple servers may be listed:
> 
>          poll pop.provider.net proto pop3 user "jsmith" pass "secret1"
>          poll other.provider.net proto pop2 user "John.Smith" pass "My^Hat"
> 
..cut    

here my .fetchmailrc(I use qmail as SMTP server)

set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set spambounce
set invisible
#set logfile .fetchmail.log
#
#
poll box.an.it with proto pop3 nodns
    user 'dontcare' there with password 'dontcare' is anonym  here
options fetchall forcecr to * here
antispam 571,550,501,552,553,554
expunge 20
#
poll pop.uni.it with proto pop3 nodns
    user 'dontcareagain' there with password 'as4beside' is anonym here
options fetchall forcecr to * here
antispam 571,550,501,552,553,554

> Hope this helps,
> Arend

I guess the problem is elsewhere,but...where (!??)

Regards,Marco

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