On 10 Feb 2004, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have seven different email accounts at Comcast.net, all used for
> various purposes. At the comcast level I have mail forwarded / don't
> leave a copy for six of the emails to the "primary" email. Then I use
> fetchmail to deliver the mail to my local user spool.
>
> It's efficient and easy (only poll one pop account), get all mail in one
> fell swoop, but it's impossible to tell which of the seven emails spam
> with forged headers was orignally delivered to -- comcast doesn't add
> any headers when it does its internal forwarding.
>
> I'm thinking what I need to do is stop the internal forwarding at
> comcast and have fetchmail poll each pop account seperately. Can I
> configure fetchmail or exim to add a header so I can still deliver all
> the mail to the same spool? If not, should I create bogus user accounts
> with shell=/bin/false and just give RW permissions to my account on
> their spools?
man fetchmail
--tracepolls
(Keyword: tracepolls) Tell fetchail to poll trace information in
the form âpolling %s account %sâ to the Received line it generâ
ates, where the %s parts are replaced by the userâs remote name
and the poll label (the Received header also normally includes
the serverâs truename). This can be used to facilate mail filâ
tering based on the account it is being received from.
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