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> 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?
Usually, there is not much of configuration involved in fetchmail for
multidrop mailboxes. Something like
poll server user name pass "word" to *;
will work.
> 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
It is not difficult - the problem is that in the multidrop fetchmail as above,
fetchmail doesn't know who a mail is addressed to - it has to figure that out
from the headers of the mail it downloads. It usually looks in the headers
Received: and X-Envelope-To: (or some such) to figure that out. But sometimes,
it fails.
> many POP3 enable clients (netscape et al.) can do the same thing and without
> a hicuup with multidrop mails?
I never knew netscape could do multidropping. Could you please elaborate?
These mail clients that can do POP/IMAP (netscape, pine, mutt etc.) can do
only single dropping - they can fetch mails for only the user running them.
Multidrop mailbox is a different proposition altogether - all the mails for a
given domain are delivered to a single mailbox on the MX server, and a client
like fetchmail will retrieve these mails and deliver them to the actual
recipients.
Binand
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