mail question erm rather opinion needed.

[SeJo]

Hi all,

I have a laptop running on Gentoo, on this machine i have several users (me, g/f, sister, rents etc)... that use their mail for on it.

Till now i have to logon for each user and fecth and rend their mail the minute i got online..

Now i would like to have a script/tool that fetches and send the mail immediately the minute i have a connection for all the users without having to login as them users.

I just want to know if i should use sendmail or something, or is there a tool already available... hate to reinvent the wheel...

if nothing exists please advise how or what tut's might help, i can't really see fetchmail and sendmail do that... but maybe cause i'm n00b...

thank you for your advice,


SeJo

[alec]

I assume you're using fetchmail - there's a user rewriting feature that might help.

Something like:

user 'me' there with password '123' is 'king' here

I only use it in .fetchmailrc's in user accounts, and haven't tried it all from one user.

[Naan Yaar]

I do something like this. I need to retrieve pop mail from several POP3 servers. Some of them have specific user id's that correspond to users on the local box; for these, I just use an "mda" line in my .fetchmailrc file that fires off sendmail. This corresponds to the first two stanza's in the fetchmailrc file below (that end in "sendmail -oem..."). The last stanza corresponds to an account that delivers mail to a common account for both users; this gets processed by procmail for correct delivery. Something that looks like one of the first two stanzas should probably work for you.

NB. This is an old system I hooked up quite a while back on a RedHat box that still seems to work OK. I haven't tried it on Gentoo though.