4 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] fetchmail times o...
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Felix MaibaumMay 19, 2004 5:58 am 
Gordon MessmerMay 19, 2004 12:44 pm 
Felix MaibaumMay 21, 2004 5:54 am 
Gordon MessmerMay 21, 2004 9:43 am 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] fetchmail times out when talking to courier smtpdActions...
From:Gordon Messmer (yiny@eburg.com)
Date:May 21, 2004 9:43:48 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Felix Maibaum wrote:

great, now the mail at least arrives on my system. The problem is, that it only arrives in the correct account if fetchmail is running as the user that it is fetching mail for. If I try to use system-wide fetchmail, then all mail ends up in the fetchmail users homedir, /var/run/fetchmail. any ideas about that?

If you're fetching mail for several users, I usually run a fetchmail per user (which gives each user the ability to change their pop password without hassling the local admin to fix fetchmail), or use sendmail as the mda:

defaults fetchall, ssl, mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail %T";

This method also avoids SMTP and its associated problems.