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Re: help: configuring fetchmail

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From: David. E. Goble
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:00
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On 30 Sep 2000 02:23:28 GMT, mpulliam@machine.linux (mpulliam) wrote:
>
>What you want fetchmail to do is pretty
>straightforward and if you go man fetchmail
>you'll be able to configure it by hand.
>You make a file ~./fetchmailrc and put
>a couple bits of information there, and
>away you go.
>
>Here is the line you need for one user
>account in fetchmail:
>
>poll mail.myisp.com with proto POP3
>user myname there with password
>mypassword is myhomename here
>
>You will need two of those lines for
>your two accounts. It looks like nonsense
>right now but read man fetchmail and
>it'll be clear.
>
Hi MP;

Thanks thats what I needed.

Question email to erc@... is bounced to goble@... Does fetchmail
handle the filtering of this or does sendmail be better...?

--Regards       David. E. Goble
             goble [AT] kin.net.au
          http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Subject: Re: help: configuring fetchmail
Date: 2000/10/02
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