[fetchmail]Re: I have looked at the FAQ but..

Tim Casson-Smith writes:

> I can't find what I am after. I have also looked in the mailing list archive 
> with no joy. So here is my problem, I need to download mail from one remote 
> account and be able to send that mail to at least 3 local mailboxes. I have 
> tried the following:
> poll pop.account.com proto pop3 user joe pass bloggs to user1 user2 here. All 
> this does is receive the mail into the roots mailbox, this is the user which 
> manages the .fetchmailrc file.  
>
> Is this more of a sendmail configuration? Any help would be appreciated as I 
> have been pulling my hair out on this :-/. 
This seems like a classic multidrop situation - and is one of the less 
trivial things to set up correctly. You need to be able to correctly 
recognise which user the message was really sent to before it was bundled 
into the communal mailbox, and this is very system-specific. 

Read the documentation again, this time paying special attention to the bits 
about multidrop. When you understand those, then ask some more questions on 
this list if you need help in solving your particular case. 

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Bill Michell
bill(_at_)mics(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk (home)