Thanks for that Phil i just would like to know if you know of any to stop
get mail appending the servername to the username for the login
[retriever]
type = MultidropSDPSRetriever
server = pop3.demon.nl
username = example@ <
http://example.demon.nl/>demon.nl<
http://example.demon.nl/>
password = super-secret
getmail and fetchmail all do the following
login username = example@
<
http://example.demon.nl/>demon.nl<
http://example.demon.nl/>
@pop3.demon.nl
how do i have the login just being wat i have specified in the getmailrc
file
On 14/04/2008, Phil Pennock <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
> On 2008-04-12 at 21:57 +0200, Hannibal Ndlovu wrote:
> > Thanks for both those replies @ Phil my ISP provides POP3 addresses that
> > have my domain for example
> > my ISP = myISP.com
> > my address = me@???
> > so the POP3 mail server for my ISP is = mail.myISP.com
> >
> > @ Phil could you post a copy of getmail config file?
>
>
> It's not directly useful to you, since my email provider when I used
> POP3 used a special POP3 called SDPS; (that provider was my former
> employer, in fact); that setup had all email within a particular set of
> domains fetched and passed on locally.
>
> But here is my config anyway. Note that:
>
> * Comment out "delete = on" until after you've debugged it.
> * I think that I disabled delivered_to because it was redundant as
> Envelope-To: would provide the same information in my setup; for you,
> this will perhaps not be the case and so you should probably keep
> this option turned on.
> * The retriever section will be near-useless to you.
> * You almost certainly do want to replace %(recipient) with the
> known-local email address that you'll be using.
> * Getmail comes with a few documentation files in both .txt and .html
> which should be useful
>
> -----------------8< cut here: ~/.getmail/getmailrc >8-------------------
> [options]
> delete = on
> delivered_to = off
> message_log_syslog = on
>
> [retriever]
> type = MultidropSDPSRetriever
> server = pop3.demon.nl
> username = example.demon.nl
> password = super-secret
>
> [destination]
> type = MDA_external
> path = /usr/local/sbin/exim
> # %(recipient) relies upon Exim treating all domains accepted by ISP as
> being
> # local; mail loop possible if not careful. Can also consider using
> # "%(local)@spodhuis.org" but then losing some information.
> arguments = ("-oi", "-f", "%(sender)", "%(recipient)")
> # delivered_to options parameter
> ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
>
> The "-oi" option tells Exim to not stop reading input at a line
> containing just a single dot. "-f <sender>" together supply the
> original envelope sender.
>
>
> -Phil
>
