[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform LI that:
>I am connected to the net through PPP (via VSNL). I am using fetchmail to get the
>mails from the VSNL server. My biff utility (kbiff) says that I have 3 messages
>(say), but when fetchmail brings, I get only two. On checking, I found that the
>muti-part (multidrop?) mail from linux-india-help (in digest from) is mssing!
>I am running fetchmai as a root and all my mails is getting deliverd in my local
>linux box to an user called "mail". How am I to configure fetchmail for multi-drop
>mail?
>And if it's so difficult using fetchmail with multi-drop mail, why should I use
>fetchmail at all? It's a bit ethical! Why one should use fetchmail, when many POP3
>enable clients (netscape et al.) can do the same thing and without a hicuup with
>multidrop mails?
It is not an ethical issue - it is a resource issue. Netscape can't
download a mail to _several_ mailboxes. Fetchmail can.
Use procmail as your mail delivery agent instead of local sendmail, put
the no dns flag in your "poll" line. I have posted this several times.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you have to hate, hate gently"
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