Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [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. > Yes, they have different user names and different passwords.
I will investigate further as it surprised me too, but it does appear as if mozilla is saying - "ah, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants his POP3 mail, since I'm connected to xxx.co.uk I'll collect mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well. What makes me suspect that mozilla *is* trying to be clever is the failure of mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mozilla is making asumptions about the POP3 server at xxx.co.uk that simply aren't true in my case. > 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. > No, they're separate accounts and the POP3 server only delivers the mail for one user when requested. I checked this out by telnetting into the POP3 server and seeing that the three users whose accounts are known to me produced different results for STAT and LIST. > 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. > The mail isn't being read by john and jane on a Linux system, they're using mozilla on Windows 2000. The pop server itself is hosted on a Linux system (not mine) where I have a shell login account and I read *my* mail actually on that system using mutt (I'm the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the examples). >> 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? > xxx.co.uk, note that this is a small system and the POP3 server and SMTP server have the *same* domain name, not the usual pop3.xxx.co.uk and smtp.xxx.co.uk. The system has "SMTP after POP3" authentication so they can connect via any old ISP. Do you think that changing the name of the SMTP server might help - there are several aliases I could use as xxx.co.uk is actually a virtual domain that I own and is hosted on the Linux box in question. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
