[Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

[BigglesZX]

Ah, and here's the strange thing - if I send mail to the list address
(using listname at localhost) from a local account, it doesn't get sent
out on the list either! No bounce messages are returned.


On 13/10/06, BigglesZX <biggleszx at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> > What is fetchmail doing with the messages it retrieves? Note that
> > possibly the most straightforward thing is to have fetchmail deliver
> > to a local mail directory (qfiles/maildir/ by default but can be
> > changed in mm_cfg.py by setting MAILDIR_DIR) and use Mailman's maildir
> > delivery by putting the following in mm_cfg.py
> >
> > USE_MAILDIR = Yes
> > QRUNNERS.append(('MaildirRunner', 1))
> >
> > See Defaults.py for more info.
> >
>
> Apologies for deviation from topic :/
>
> Okay, I've spent some time looking through the fetchmail documentation
> and I can't for the life of me establish how to direct mail to a local
> directory. Incidentally, my .fetchmailrc is as follows - I'm hoping I
> got the semantics of it correct with regards to passing on mail in the
> correct fashion.
>
>    poll mymailserver.com protocol pop3
>       username myusername there with password mypassw0rd is listname here nokeep
>    ;
>
> This configuration gives the impression of successful retreival and
> flushing of remote mail. But it's still not making it to the list, so
> I'm looking to try this local directory approach.
>
> qfiles/in and qfiles/shunt are both empty, incidentally.
>
> Thanks once again,
>
>    Biggs
>
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> biggleszx at gmail.com
> http://www.biggleszx.com/
>


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