On 5/16/05, David (Libra Designs) <david(_at_)libra-designs(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
wrote:
Hi,
Our internal mail server is a SuSE9.2 linux box running Fetchmail 6.2.5
to collect mail from our ISP's catchall POP3 mailbox (single mailbox so
we're using multi-drop) and then passes it to our internal Postfix
(2.1.6) server. Our ISP doesn't add any form of envelope-to headers and
so we've used the default (ie. not specified any envelope or -E setting
in the .fetchmailrc file). Any email that Fetchmail collects that
doesn't have a local Postfix mailbox is passed to the postmaster
mailbox. We've had this working for 3 or 4 months with no problems at all.
RTFM - Fetchmail only reliably supports multi-drop with the
appropriate envelope header. Without it it's reduced to guessing, and
as you're seeing sometimes gets it wrong. You are strongly advised to
talk to your ISP and get them to add the appropriate header (or switch
to a better clued ISP).
However, in the last 2 weeks we've started to get an increasing number
of, what appear to be valid emails, being dropped into the postmaster
mailbox.
Contents of .fetchmailrc and output of "fetchmail -v -v" for one of these?
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
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