[Gllug] Fetchmail from ISP

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> Your ISP should support "plus" notation.  For example, if my ISP
> hostname was "foobar.isp.co.uk" then, normally you would log into your
> ISP's mail server as "foobar".
> 
> Most ISPs will let you login as "user+foobar" which will only pull mail
> for "user".

Most is a bit of a stretch there. It's not actually supported by all that 
many ISPs. Some of us prefer to offer real POP3 mailboxes in addition to a 
catchall.

Some prefer to leave it to the user.

Jason Clifford
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