[ilug] Postfix error -> this is easy...not for me though

John Madden maddenj at skynet.ie
Tue Jul 16 16:51:10 IST 2002


On (16/07/02 16:42), Wynne, Conor didst pronounce:
> 
> Now I obviously changed something but I dont know what [probably something
> to do with aliases] -still a mail newbie- 
> I'll explain, the error is correct as there is no user called wynnec. I used
> to have wynnec mapped to cwynne. Why? Because my login to me pop mail is
> wynnec, and fetchmail collects it and supposed to send it on to the local
> user cwynne. So how do I fix that? 
> 
Well, you could put wynnec: cwynne in your /etc/aliases and run
postalias /etc/aliases. Or, you could just use a .fetchmailrc. Something
like:

poll mail.server with proto POP3
	user 'wynnec' there with password 'CHANGEME' is cwynne here

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Chat ya later,

John.
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