I am currently using fetchmail with multidrop without problems, but am
contemplating a change which will cause problems. So I'd like to
understand how to fix this, before making any changes.
My mother (82 yo) runs Linux, which I remotely (600+ miles) maintain for
her. She uses Mozilla for her MUA, and I have it set to send mail
straight to her ISP's SMTP relay. Problem is, her ISP has been rather
flakey of late, and to her it looks like "she can't send email." I'd
like to have her MUA send the mail to Postfix on her own box, and the
whenever the link is up, Postfix would send it to her ISP's relay. I
already have Postfix configured on her machine to send her log files to
me, and that path works.
The problem is that my family receives mail through multidrop, she sends
email to multiple family members, and her machine shares a domain name
with my LAN. In addition, I have a forwarding domain at DynDNS.org that
both she and my family use, and that name corresponds to the LAN names
for all of our machines. Therefore here Postfix won't send email to my
family, because it thinks the mail is local. I could set up an alias to
send email directly to my ISP account, but then it appears that all
multidrop information is lost.
So I think the question is: How do I get Postfix to add the right
headers so that multidrop can figure out who gets a piece of mail?
I've done some command line experiments, and on the first "Received:"
line, where Postfix gets the mail from the 'mail' command, there is no
"for grandson(_at_)family(_dot_)org" so there is no information for fetchmail to do
multidrop.
Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. Maybe rather than adding header
information there's some way to tell Postfix that half of this domain is
here, and half is over there. I'll be at her house in the next few
weeks, and would like to try and fix this up locally. (While I'm busy
bringing her up to date - she gets security updates only from 600+ miles
away.)
Thanks,
Dale Pontius
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