[Gllug] Fetchmail from ISP

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:49:17AM +0000, Jason wrote:
> > It doesn't work at all unless the ISP's mailstore works exactly as
> > fetchmail wants.  Mailstores that support multidrop add a header to each
> > e-mail to show the intended recipient, like 'X-Real-To:'.  For fetchmail
> > to work, the recipient has to be specified as user at domain, where
> > "domain" is an acceptable local domain.  Some mail systems just put
> > "X-Real-To: user", which fetchmail in multidrop will reject.
> 
> fetchmail will quite happily take the necessary data from the Recipient 
> headers - it doesn't require any additional special headers to be added to 
> messages.
> 
> This was the case back in 1997.

You can let fetchmail guess at the recipient from that but it's not
reliable and it doesn't work with mailing lists and other distribution
lists.

-- 
Bruce

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real)
proves that we are not living in Judea in AD 50. -- Philip K. Dick
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