Re: avoiding mail loops in fetchmail

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 04/11/05

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    Ankush Grover wrote:
    > My fetchmail configuration file
    > poll mailserver localdomains domainname
    > user " " with pass " " to * here flush
    >
    > I am having catchall mailbox (multidrop mailbox) what happens is that
    > when there is mails for 2 or more users in the catchall box the mail
    > recieved by the user is 2 or more means if there are 4 mails then each
    > user will get 4 mails .I want to avoid mail loops.I have posted my
    > fetchmailrc above .Please have a look at it and tell me how to avoid
    > loops.
    >
    > I am using catchall for many users in my office and so I want to send
    > the mails from the catchall mailbox to the respective users.

    How does fetchmail know who to deliver the mail to?

    Are you aware of the well-known issues regarding using multidrop
    mailboxes like this with fetchmail (see the fetchmail man page)?
    Basically, unless your MTA adds a suitable header (e.g. Delivered-To:)
    to indicate the actual recipient of the email, or there is one already
    there (e.g. a To: or Cc: header), it won't work.

    Paul. 

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