Re: safety/permissions

[whitnl73@juno.com]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s),
> since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some
> mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved
> now completely. It was something with my fetchmail configuration. I
> don't fully understand why it used to work but it didn't work when I
> reinstalled Linux Debian, but ok... Here's the solution:
>
> My .fetchmailrc-file looks now like this:
> -----
> set postmaster "kurt"
> set bouncemail
> set spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 500
> poll allserv.rug.ac.be with proto IMAP
>        user 'ksys' there with password 'xxxx' is 'kurt' here
>        options smtphost 'ksys.rug.ac.be' forcecr ssl fetchall
> -----
>
> I had to add the option:
> smtphost 'ksys.rug.ac.be'
>
> I guess another config-file, somewhere is /etc is wrong and fetchmail
> reads that file if it doesn't find the 'smtphost'-option. Could this
> be right?
>
Not exactly.  smtphost defaults to 'localhost'.
>
> Anyway,
> thanks for your help,
> Kurt.

Lawson
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