Jonathan McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:49:18PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>>
>> Right, so FETCHMAIL is trying to deduce the recipient based on the To: 
>> header field. This is *not* going to work for list mail, spam, BCC's,
>> or any other message whose envelope recipients aren't listed in the
>> To: field. This is a lame way to redirect mail, but it's a FETCHMAIL
>> problem, not a qmail problem.
>
>No.

OK, fine, thanks for explaining that. I did point out that I wasn't a
fetchmail expert. :-)

>What's happened is that fetchmail expects the Delivered-To header to
>have the real recipient in it. Which means that it's probably picking up
>the qmail list server Delivered-To: header.

This is a lame way to redirect mail...

>Petre: You probably want to look at the documentation for the qvirtual
>command in your fetchmailrc.

Sounds like my quess that the problem might be the "envelope
Delivered-To:" phrase was right.

>It's still a fetchmail error rather than a qmail one though.

Yup.

-Dave

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