OT a bit: fetchmail question

[Jeff Kinz]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:10:04AM -0400, jack wallen wrote:
> i've been using fetchmail for quite some time now. but i've run into a
> problem. i had to switch providers recently and my username went from
> jlwallen to jlwallen at monkeypantz.net (my domain but now being hosted by
> someone other than myself - i was busted by my isp for having servers
> running). 
> 
> now that my username for mail has changed i can get fetchmail to fetch
> the mail but since there is no user named jlwallen at monkeypantz.net on my
> machine - i can't actually deliver the mail locally.
> 
> is there a way i can configure fetchmail around this? or am i going to
> have to set up a user jlwallen at monkeypantz.net on this machine?
> 

In your .fecthmailrc file use the "X is user y here" feature, example:

poll mail.isp.net protocol POP3: user dsl, with password secret, is tom here;

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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.