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Title: Third time's the charm, I hope
Post by: Michael Smith on January 07, 2004, 12:26:37 AM

I've asked this before and gotten nothing useful, so here we go again.  My domain host, Domain Direct, is implementing changes to their email system so that I will have to login to my multidrop catchall POP account with, for instance, "foo@bar.com" instead of just "foo".

The server manager panel WILL NOT let me add the username in this format.  I have tried using quotes, I have tried escaping both the "@" and the "." with a backslash.  I am in the process of looking through the file structure trying to find where fetchmail stores the username/password info; I hope that I might be able to manually set the username that way.

Bright ideas, anyone?

Thanks ...

Title: Re: Third time's the charm, I hope
Post by: Duncan on January 07, 2004, 01:07:46 AM

The fetchmail script is in /etc/fetchmail. /etc/startmail calls it.

The file is templated so any changes to it would need to be reflected in the template system.

Bit strange though. I have just entered duncan@test.com on my 5.6 system and it worked fine.

Regards Duncan

Title: Re: Third time's the charm, I hope
Post by: Charlie Brady on January 07, 2004, 04:30:33 AM

Michael Smith wrote:

> My domain host, Domain Direct, is implementing
> changes to their email system so that I will have to login to
> my multidrop catchall POP account with, for instance,
> "foo@bar.com" instead of just "foo".
>
> The server manager panel WILL NOT let me add the username in
> this format.  I have tried using quotes, I have tried escaping
> both the "@" and the "." with a backslash.  I am in the process
> of looking through the file structure trying to find where
> fetchmail stores the username/password info;

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop fetchmail SecondaryMailAccount foo@bar.com
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

Since this appears to be a bug, be sure to report it to the bugs phorum. Hopefully someone will come up with a fixed package.

Charlie

Title: Re: Third time's the charm, I hope
Post by: Michael Smith on January 07, 2004, 06:40:06 PM

Either I'm cracking up or it's a bug in 5.6 ... I
was successful in getting an older 5.1.2 system to
accept foo@bar.com (yes, it's behind a firewall with
no exposure to the Internet).  Will put together a
6.0 test machine and see if it can retrieve mail with
this type of username.

If I can replicate the error faithfully in 5.6 and 6.0
I will post a bug report, otherwise I'll just go lie
down in a dark room for awhile.

THANKS for the responses!

Title: Re: Third time's the charm, I hope
Post by: George Siegel on January 08, 2004, 12:49:28 AM

> The server manager panel WILL NOT let me add the username in
> this format.

I'm running 5.6 and I also use Domain Direct. It worked fine for me.