fetchmail and missing delivery-information
Hello, my provider does collect all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in one single POP-account. I retrieve mail by the help of fetchmail in multidrop-mode, which does work when mail is sent to different [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail from this list is not delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (aehm, well not directly as postmaster-mailer-daemon-root-mirko-root qmail will send it to me at the end). I think this is due to the to:-header containing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any hints? Thanks! Mirko PS: I know my provider does use exim as mta. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] surfto:http://sites.inka.de/picard
Re: fetchmail and missing delivery-information
Mirko Zeibig writes: Hello, my provider does collect all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in one single POP-account. I retrieve mail by the help of fetchmail in multidrop-mode, which does work when mail is sent to different [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail from this list is not delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (aehm, well not directly as postmaster-mailer-daemon-root-mirko-root qmail will send it to me at the end). I think this is due to the to:-header containing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any hints? Thanks! Yes. POP3 is not a replacement for SMTP. Multidrop mode is broken. What you need to do is to either have your provider add an extra header which indicates the real envelope recipient, or receive mail via SMTP. When mail goes into your mailbox, it loses the envelope recipient information. Fetchmail can try to guess what the envelope recipient is, in multidrop mode, but, as you found out, that would only be a guess, and it some situations it would be wrong.
Re: fetchmail and missing delivery-information
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mirko Zeibig writes: Hello, my provider does collect all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in one single POP-account. I retrieve mail by the help of fetchmail in multidrop-mode, which does work when mail is sent to different [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail from this list is not delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (aehm, well not directly as postmaster-mailer-daemon-root-mirko-root qmail will send it to me at the end). I think this is due to the to:-header containing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any hints? Thanks! Yes. POP3 is not a replacement for SMTP. Multidrop mode is broken. What you need to do is to either have your provider add an extra header which indicates the real envelope recipient, or receive mail via SMTP. When mail goes into your mailbox, it loses the envelope recipient information. Fetchmail can try to guess what the envelope recipient is, in multidrop mode, but, as you found out, that would only be a guess, and it some situations it would be wrong. However, if his provider uses Qmail, then, when Qmail delivers the mail to /usr/spool/mail/whoever, each individual mail has a "Delivered-To:" record that does specify the envelope recipient, (So, if a message has a To:, Bcc:, Cc:, or has a To:/From: that does not specify the envelope recipient, the "Delivered-To:" record does so correctly-even if the email has multiple recipients, which could be a Bcc:, also.) See man fetchmail, for the "qvirtual" option on how to get fetchmail to exploit this. John -- John Conover, 631 Lamont Ct., Campbell, CA., 95008, USA. VOX 408.370.2688, FAX 408.379.9602 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www2.inow.com/~conover/john.html
