On 2004-02-10, Nano Nano penned: > I have seven different email accounts at Comcast.net, all used for > various purposes. At the comcast level I have mail forwarded / don't > leave a copy for six of the emails to the "primary" email. Then I use > fetchmail to deliver the mail to my local user spool. > > It's efficient and easy (only poll one pop account), get all mail in > one fell swoop, but it's impossible to tell which of the seven emails > spam with forged headers was orignally delivered to -- comcast doesn't > add any headers when it does its internal forwarding. > > I'm thinking what I need to do is stop the internal forwarding at > comcast and have fetchmail poll each pop account seperately. Can I > configure fetchmail or exim to add a header so I can still deliver all > the mail to the same spool? If not, should I create bogus user > accounts with shell=/bin/false and just give RW permissions to my > account on their spools? >
You can poll as many accounts as you'd like and dump them all to the same spool file. Fetchmail doesn't care. But maybe I don't understand your question properly, as you talk about adding a header, and I don't see why you would want this ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
