Thanks hh,
I tried but no difference, it refuses to match the remote user to the
local user.

Regards Fred

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:06:45 +0100, hhh <hhh@here.home> wrote:

>Fred Stuurman wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to set up fetchmail to receive mails from an external
>> domain www.2edalton.nl to my linux redhat 7.3 server locally and want
>> the mail be split to the existing users on the linux server.
>> All the mails are received but deliverd to the postmaster.
>> I have tried a lot of combinations for the .fetchmailrc config file.
>> This is what I think should work:
>>
>> poll mail.2edalton.nl
>> localdomains node11500.a2000.nl:
>> user <userid> pass <secret> to * here
>>
>
>change your command line in
>user <user> pass <secret> to <linux-user> here
>
>for multiple users something like:
>user <user> pass <secret> to <boxuser>=<linux-user>
><next-boxuser>=<next-linux-user> etc..
>
>hh