Hello there.
A while before Christmas I posted a message in this list questioning why
mail that is addressed to my wife ends up in my own box.
I had a number of replies from a handful of helpful individuals and I
thank you all. However, none of the suggestions (at least those that I
could understand) actually worked. This may have been due to my initial
posting not being clear enough.
One suggestion that I tried ended up bouncing all the mail that came in
during the next mail-run. Ouch..!
I left this problem alone for a couple of months while I worked on other
things and now I have applied myself to the manuals again in the hope that
I can sort this problem out.
Surely, (thinks I) what I am trying to achieve is not that difficult or
uncommon... It seems not.. I have just found a section in the procmail
man-pages that exactly describes my situation...
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Procmail is not the proper tool for sharing one mailbox among many users,
such as when you have one POP account for all mail to your domain. It
can be done if you manage to configure your MTA to add some headers with
the envelope recipient data in order to tell Procmail who a message is
for, but this is usually not the right thing to do. Perhaps you want to
investigate if your MTA offers `virtual user tables', or see e.g. the
`multidrop' facility of Fetchmail.
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Well.. That explains that..! I am barking up the wrong tree entirely.
I remember reading somewhere that the "multidrop" facility is risky and
can lose mail, so I have not investigated that or experimented with it
yet.
I use sendmail on my system and linuxconf allows the set up of what appear
to me to be 'virtual user tables' (am I wrong ?) although setting these
parameters does not seem to have worked either.
I have one POP account at my ISP that collects mail for moginet.org.uk and
I use fetchmail to collect it (as paul) I have even tried a fetchmail as
root and still, all the mail ends up in the one box.
What am I doing wrong ? I think that this is probably not a procmail issue
and I apologise for cluttering up your mail with a non-procmail query, but
perhaps someone could direct me to a mailing list that will be able to
answer my questions.. Please don't point me at a website... Browsing is
not possible from this station at the moment.
Thanks again to all who offered suggestions in the past.
I will be unsubscribing from this list in about a week or so - I'll keep
my eyes peeled for Era's posting on the unsubscribing procedure next time
it comes up..
Paul.. .
The RoadRunner W www.moginet.org.uk .
paul(_at_)moginet(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk E www.moginet.co.uk
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