John W. Lemons III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I've figured out their problem... They are using FTGate to retrieve
> the mail from their ISP who places all their mail in a multi-drop mailbox.
> Then the "smartpop" stuff in FTGate pulls the info from the ISPs drop box
> and distributes it to the various local mail boxes, but can't distribute
> some of the messages because the ISP is not modifying the message headers to
> append the "expected" X-Recipient header derived from the RECV TO:
> information from the envelope. Is it just me, or does this sound
> non-standard? Any RFCs on this?
It's commonly done. fetchmail and getmail support this type of thing;
it would help if the ISP used something which inserted Delivered-To: headers,
like qmail. However, relying on this for business purposes is broken, as
it is trying to do something that SMTP/POP3 was never designed to do.
Charles
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