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List:       fetchmail-friends
Subject:    [fetchmail] How to copy mail from one server to multiple client users
From:       Phil Schmidt <PSchmidt () omnimn ! com>
Date:       2002-12-18 22:02:01
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Newbie here, trying to connect the mail dots...

My wife and I share a single mail account at our ISP. We each have separate
user accounts ('phil' and 'philswife') on our home (linux) PC. When mail is
pulled from the ISP, I want a copy of every item of mail to be sent to both
user 'phil' and user 'philswife'. I want this to happen, regardless of
whether I or my wife is logged in.

I have installed qmail on my PC, with the (perhaps mistaken?) notion that I
could have fetchmail pull mail from the server, route it to qmail via SMTP
on localhost, and have qmail then deliver copies to both user accounts.

Some questions:
1) Is this a sensible way to accomplish my goal?
2) Can fetchmail do this directly, without needing qmail?
3) Should fetchmail run as root?
4) Should I be addressing the qmail folks instead of the fetchmail folks?

Thanks for any help!


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