I have been testing successfully on a small scale fetchmail and
POP3, using one mail box to collect/distribute mail for users
in an entire domain - i.e. set up at the ISP one mail user, say
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
and a number of aliases, say
user01:mailcollector, user02:mailcollector, ...
But the fetchmail home-page says the recommended way is to
use ETRN. I have read the RFC 1985 for SMTP Service Extension
for Remote Message Queue Starting, but it does not help me.
Questions:
1. Is ETRN supposed to work in the context of a separate mailbox
for each individual user, or can the above setup of one mailbox for all
users in the domain (aliased to that mailbox user) still be used. The
latter is obviously more cost effective, and much more preferred in
my application for that reason.
2. Fetchmail does have an ETRN option. But how should .fetchmailrc
be configured? I tried the following, without success. Column on left
was what I have used successfully with POP3. Column on right was
what I attempted to use with ETRN.
POP3 ETRN
poll pop.domain.com poll smtp.domain.com
protocol POP3 protocol ETRN
localdomains domain.com localdomains domain.com
no dns no dns
no envelope no envelope
user mailcoll, password �****� user mailcoll, password �****�
to to
user01 user01
user02 user02
user03 user03
here here
Thanks,
CL.
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