[ale] Fetchmail

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:54 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> I have two users on this box: my wife and me. If I set up Fetchmail to pick up 
> mail from Speedfactory, it only appends mail to the queue belonging to the 
> user who invoked Fetchmail, i.e. if root invoked Fetchmail, all retrieved 
> mail ends up in root's mail queue. How do I get around this. In running 
> fetchmailconfig, I am asked the local name of the user whose mail is being 
> retrieved from Speedfactory's POP server. And the log below seems to show 
> that user being recognized. But everything still goes to root. Are there any 
> how-to's out there that explain how to do this? I've been looking for several 
> days.

Fetchmail is "user specific". Each user on the mail spooler runs their
own fetchmail process. So you will need to set up fetchmail once for you
and agin for your wife. Then as root, you can run them from an rc.local
call using 

su - <username> 'fetchmail ~/.fetchmailrc'
su - <user2> ...
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