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Re: [fetchmail]how best to do this?

2005-08-03 10:14:12
Rob MacGregor wrote:
On 03/08/05, Max Waterman
<davidmaxwaterman+fetchmail-friends(_at_)fastmail(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:

Hi,

I have built a mail server, and it works the way I want ... almost.

The last part is ... you guessed it ... fetchmail.


Note that fetchmail 6.2.5 has security vulnerabilities.  Update to
6.2.5.2 or later (http://fetchmail.berlios.de/).

OK, thanks for the warning.


Is there a way of doing it like this :

fetchmail connects
fetchmail checks SSL
foreach folder {
  fetchmail logs in
  fetchmail downloads messages
  fetchmail logs out
}
fetchmail disconnects


AFAIK no, you have to do it one mailbox at a time.


Hrm. On a whim, I tried having fastmail filter all the messages into a single folder and then just running fetchmail on the single folder.

It looked like it worked fine; in fact, it's the best possible situation.

When I send a message 'To' multiple users in my domain, fastmail only puts a single copy into the designated folder. This means that fetchmail only downloads a single message (whilst before it was downloading N copies). It seems that postfix recognises that it has to deliver it to two users and so it duplicates.

Does this sound correct? Any potential pitfalls? It does simplify things enormously.

Max.

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