[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Mirko Zeibig writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > my provider does collect all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in one single
> > POP-account. I retrieve mail by the help of fetchmail in multidrop-mode,
> > which does work when mail is sent to different [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Mail from this list is not delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (aehm, well not directly as postmaster->mailer-daemon->root->mirko-root
> > qmail will send it to me at the end).
> > I think this is due to the to:-header containing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Any hints? Thanks!
>
> Yes. POP3 is not a replacement for SMTP. Multidrop mode is broken. What
> you need to do is to either have your provider add an extra header which
> indicates the real envelope recipient, or receive mail via SMTP. When mail
> goes into your mailbox, it loses the envelope recipient information.
> Fetchmail can try to guess what the envelope recipient is, in multidrop
> mode, but, as you found out, that would only be a guess, and it some
> situations it would be wrong.
>
However, if his provider uses Qmail, then, when Qmail delivers the
mail to /usr/spool/mail/whoever, each individual mail has a
"Delivered-To:" record that does specify the envelope recipient, (So,
if a message has a To:, Bcc:, Cc:, or has a To:/From: that does not
specify the envelope recipient, the "Delivered-To:" record does so
correctly-even if the email has multiple recipients, which could be a
Bcc:, also.)
See man fetchmail, for the "qvirtual" option on how to get fetchmail
to exploit this.
John
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