Re: fetchmail and not delivering cc + bcc mail

--- Keith <ac7xcLnx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:41 +0200, Gregory Machin wrote:
Hi
Please could you advise.
I have fetchmail / sendamil running on a server that collects mail
every 15 min, but it seems that the mail address in the cc and bcc are
not being delivered to the user's boxes and going to the catch all
box.
What could be wrong ...

--
Gregory Machin
gregory.machin@xxxxxxxxx
www.linuxpro.co.za


Create a procmail recipe to deliver the mail to the user mailbox.
If fetchmail is being run by root then put a .fetchmailrc in root's
directory or you can set one up in /etc. If it is a user account you are
running fetchmail create a .fetchmailrc in the users directory. The most
important line is to use

is localuseraccountname here


sample .fetchmailrc

set postmaster "username"
set logfile .mailfetch-log

poll mail.servername.net with proto POP3 uidl
user 'pop3_username'
pass 'pop3_password'
is localuseraccountname here
keep


## end of .fetchmailrc

You can use a .procmailrc recipe to catch anything to a
certain pop3_accounts name in the header.

:0H:
* .*pop3_username.*
/var/spool/mail/username


In this context, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a several
years-long issue. I have fetchmail and procmail set up just fine, and they are
working, but here is the problem.

When I get my mail and procmail it, I make a logfile. However, the log-file
does not have the sender's name in it but rather my name (because I fetched it
from my pop server). This is not much use to me, and would really help if I
could find a way to get procmail to provide me with the sender's name.

Many thanks,
Trotter




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