Hello, Actually it *is* guaranteed to misdeliver mail - the first time you get a message where the recipient list does not match the contents of the headers. See my original message for the details of why this is the case. When they match, the approach will work, however if your mail comes in with not all the "To:" or "Cc:" fields set as you would expect, you will have misdelivery. These cases are common with messages sent to distribution lists, auto forwarded, bcc'd, etc.
Please remember that the original poster was trying to deliver from a single remote pop3 account to multiple local pop3 accounts. This is the problem. When you've got a 1:1 match between remote and local accounts, this approach should work without any problems, as the issue of trying to analyze message headers to induce a recipient list goes away. Best Regards, Tim Kehres International Messaging Associates http://www.ima.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Fetchmail, Sendmail and multiple usernames > > I'm not sure how simple or difficult it is to do this with sendmail, > however > > the approach is guaranteed to misdeliver mail. The reason is that when > > Internet mail is in transit - it is sent with two components - the message > > content (what you see with your client plus 822 message headers), and the > > message envelope. The contents of the 822 header (To:, Cc:, Subject:, etc > > fields) ARE NOT necessarily the same as the message envelope. The > message > > As I said before, the poster's set up is exactly the same as mine. We use > fetchmail in multidrop mode to deliver locally to each individual user here. > It sounds like you know a lot more about mail , headers, etc. etc. etc. then > I do, however be careful saying things like 'guaranteed to misdeliver mail'. > > The set up he's describing CAN and DOES work just fine. I've been running is > since RHL 5.2. > > To the original poster: Read up on fetchmail in multi-drop mode. I've read > all the warnings people have given about using this mode over the years, but > here, it just works. Certainly worth a try. > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
