[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a POP3 server on which a number of members of my family have > accounts. I also read my mail on the same system (it's a linux box) > but I read my mail locally using an MUA on the system itself. > > Thus there are POP3 accounts of the form:- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and a *local* mail account of the form:- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Mozilla mail doesn't seem to be able to cope with this at all! > > Firstly when John downloads his POP3 mail Jane's mail get's downloaded > too and Mozilla often reports that there's new mail to John, even when he > hasn't actually got any new mail. >
Do John and Jane set up their Mozilla mail profiles so that they send their own distinct username and password to the POP3 server? I am confused as to why the POP3 server would send everybody's mail. Or is there only one account with one username on the POP3 server? Some ISP's do that. They deliver mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to all users who sign on to account_name. They don't sort the mail according to the recipient before the @ sign. (My ISP does do the sorting. I log in as account_name+mailbox_name to collect mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) If the ISP does not sort, then there is nothing Mozilla can do. You can use procmail on your Linux system to collect the mail and do the sorting. > Secondly Mozilla seems to think that Jim must have a POP3 mail box on > the same system as John and Jane, if they try to send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla reports "no such user"! > What do John and Jane use for their Outgoing mail server?
