Hi all,
Been plugging away at fetchmail and have hit a wall...
My fetchmail.rc file:
skip mail.mydomain.com
proto pop3
user "user(_at_)mydomain(_dot_)com"
pass "pass"
keep
fetchall
When fetchmail is started with:
fetchmail -v -f '/home/james/.fetchmailrc' mail.mydomain.com
It happily fetches the emails, but tries to deliver to
james(_at_)locahost(_dot_) I
was on the assumption that fetchmail would deliver to who the email was
intended for if no
As Rob pointed out below, my ISP is using "Delivered-To:" in their headers
and not "Envelope-To:", so I used:
fetchmail -v -E "Delivered-To:" -f '/home/james/.fetchmailrc'
mail.mydomain.com
This gave the same results, where it tried delivering to
james(_at_)localhost(_dot_)
I am trying to find a solution to where all emails that would be delviered
to a catch all account on a seondary MX server would be distributed to their
intended destination for three domains. As yet, I can only get them to be
delivered to james(_at_)localhost(_dot_) I do hope I am going about the
solution the
right way.... ie - An email sent to user(_at_)domain(_dot_)com is fetched by
fecthmail
and then SENT to user(_at_)domain(_dot_)com via my local MTA.
Any suggested reading or a possible solution?
Kind Regards,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob MacGregor [mailto:rob(_dot_)macgregor(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2004 5:02 PM
To: James Doutsis
Subject: Re: [fetchmail]Using fetchmail for my secondary MX "problem"
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:48:09 +1000, James Doutsis
<fetchmail-friends(_at_)doutsis(_dot_)com> wrote:
Reading over the FAQ
(http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html) I understand that
it isn't recommended to be used for entire domain(s), but I believe
for the very few times that I would need to use it, fetchmail would do
the job. Where "the job" is to fetch any emails delivered to the
secondary MX and to drop it into my local mail queue for filtering and
delivery to users. If I am wrong, can you please let me know?
You need to ensure that your ISP is putting in some form of Envelope-To
header, to make this happen sensibly, but it can be done.
Heck, it's what I use.
Before I ask my silly newbie question, is there an archive where I can
search previous posts? I have looked, but have come up blank.
Well if you look at the page you visited to sign up to the list, there's a
link there to a non-searchable archive. However it's all in text form, so
you can download and grep :)
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Rob MacGregor
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