ah. that sounds like un common sence to me. thanks for that little bit of advise. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on Shaun.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > thanks for the vote of confidence geoff. > > I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root only > > and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is > > shauno Shaun Shaun here; > > but then again I might be wrong. > > I think the syntax is "user shauno is shaun here" assuming your local > account is shaun and your pop3 account is shauno. I don't have to deal > with this however, as I run fetchmail as the user that it's intended for. > This has its advantages - you can control polling for mail on a > user-by-user basis. Running it this way, you need only do "user shauno" as > it will deliver to the account running the process. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
