fetchmail

[David Richards]

ok thanks for the help with fetchamil. Now all my mail is down. But not in
any mail boxes. is it  to do with sendmail ?? and how would i fix it ?



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ovens [mailto:mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org]
Sent: 05 March 2000 17:52
To: David Richards
Cc: 'freebsd-users at ukug.uk.freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: fetchmail


On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:19:34PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:11:38PM -0000, David Richards wrote:
> > hello,
> >        please could some one send me a .fetchmailrc that will collect my
> > mail from a pop3 server and inject it in to sendmail, so sendmail will
send
> > it to the correct users ?.
> > 
> 
> This is mine:
> 
> 
> # Configuration created Sat Sep 18 16:14:37 1999 by fetchmailconf
> set postmaster "postmaster"
> set daemon 2
> poll ukug.uk.freebsd.org with proto POP3
>        user "mark" there with password "not_telling" is mark here warnings
3600
> 
> As you can see from the comment, it was created with fetchmailconf
> which, IIRC, is installed when you install fetchmail. It provides
> a GUI front-end to configuring fetchmail. Give it a try. There's
> a manpage for it.
> 

Hmm, I didn't read your message properly. The .fetchmailrc will get the
messages from the server but to route than to mailboxes I use procmail(1).
Put this line in ~/.forward:


"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"

and then construct a ~/.procmailrc to route them. This is mine,
primarily for routing mail from the FreeBSD lists into individual
mailboxes (current, stable, questions etc.). You should use the
To: field (e,g, the ``* ^TO_.*mark'' entry) if you want to sort by
user:


# .procmailrc
# routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes

	PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
	MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
	DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/Inbox
	LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
	SHELL=/bin/sh
	LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail

	:0
	* ^Sender:.owner-freebsd-\/[^@]+ at FreeBSD.ORG
	{
		LISTNAME=${MATCH}
		:0
		* LISTNAME??^\/[^@]+
		${MATCH}
	}

	:0:
	* ^Sender:.freebsd-users-admin
	ukusers

	:0:
	* ^TO_.*mark
	mark

	:0:
	* ^TO_.*codeforge
	cforge

	scrap


> HTH
> 
> 
> > thanks
> > david
> > 
> > 
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