Ys it is common, but obviously not with those that replied already. Please read the doco, it does describe your solution, however you need a degree in Davide's writing style.
<doco extract> "?home.bogus.com,felins.net,pets.org" "dlibenzi" "xmailserver.org"=> "dlibenzi" "XYZ..." "CLR" and messages are dropped inside the spool by following these rules: XMail parse the message headers by searching for To:, Cc: and Bcc: addresses. Each address's domain is compared with the list of valid domains (felins.net, pets.org). For each valid address the username part is taken and joined with the '@' and the masquerade domain name (the name following '?'). The message is spooled with the above built destination address. </doco extract> So, using the above example, if your local domain was home.bogus.com and you had a domain pop account (pop account where all users mail for that whole domain are placed), that had mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], then these emails will match the rule and will be downloaded. The left of the '@' is used with the local domain (home.bogus.com - because of the '?') to produce [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is then placed in the spool and delivered in the normal way. The mail then finds itself in the correct local user mailbox. Pop3links.tab example "?home.bogus.com,felins.net,pets.org" "name_of_local_account" "isp_domain.org" "name_of_isp_account" "encryp_passwd" "CLR" Only thing is that I don't know why you would specify "name_of_local_account" with a "?" in the first field, perhaps it is used for undetermined emails. Does that clear it up. Rob :-) _________________________________________________ Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Adcock > Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 7:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [xmail] Re: Pop3 syncing > > Okeydokey, sorry about that. Here we go ... > > I have an external POP3 box with my ISP that receives > <anything>@myexternaldomain.org. On Mercury, I could just set > up a connection to that POP3 box. It would periodically pull > any e-mails from that POP3 box, and deliver the mails to all > my local users accounts, based on the <anything> that was in > the To: field of each e-mail. So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > got delivered to the local user "kris", and so on. Any > e-mails which didn't find a home were delivered to a default > local user. > > Sorry for not explaining that earlier - I'd got it into my > head that it was a common way of doing things. Obviously not! :) > > Cheers, > > Kris. > > > Mike Harrington wrote: > > I agree your post is confusing as to what exactly you're trying to > > accomplish... If you have an external POP3 mailbox, and you > want the > > messages to be pulled from that mailbox and redistributed > to multiple > > accounts, you can create a mailing list and setup a POP3 > link on the > > mailing list; when new messages are pulled, they'll be > distributed to > > the mailing list. Or optionally you can do the same thing with a > > standard mailbox, add a POP3 link, and setup your > mailproc.tab with redirects and lredirects. > > > > Maybe you could clarify what you're trying to do. > > > > -Mike > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kevin Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:01 PM > > Subject: [xmail] Re: Pop3 syncing > > > > > > > >>Curious question: if you are sharing one POP3 mailbox among > multiple > >>users, how do the users know which messages are theirs? > >> > >>Perhaps you need to use the mailproc.tab file for the > account that is > >>fetching, and put the the routing logic in there. I've > always thought > >>1 user = 1 POP3 mailbox. > >> > >>Kris Adcock wrote: > >> > >>>Well, I've dug out an old P2-400 and installed SuSE 9.2 > and the xmail > >>>rpm. I am SO impressed on how quickly it all went in! Thanks to > >>>everyone who has put such work into xmail, and thanks also > to Jeffrey > >>>Laramie - your "Beginners' Guide to XMail on Linux" babysat me > >>>throughout! :) > >>> > >>>I've created my domain and have half a dozen e-mail > accounts set up - > >>>I can now send e-mails between them all quite happily. Now > I want to > >>>set it to fetch mail from my POP3 box at my ISP. > >>> > >>>I've found poplnkadd, but I'm a bit confused. What I would like is > >>>for xmail to periodically pull the mail from my POP3 box and > >>>distribute any messages to the correct users. But the poplnkadd > >>>command needs my local domain AND a local user. Why is this? Does > >>>this mean that every e-mail in the POP3 account will get > delivered to > >>>that user, instead of being distributed about? Or do I > have to enter > >>>a poplnkadd command for every user I create in the domain? > >>> > >>>Thanks for your patience! > >>> > >>>Kris. > >>>- > >>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > xmail" in > >>>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: > >>>send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >> > >>- > >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: > >>send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: > > send the line "help" in the body of a message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > . > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
