[Gllug] Fetchmail from ISP

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> > Apart from the other suggestions, fetchmail does support various kinds
> > of multidrop mailboxes (see fetchmail(1)) although clearly without the
> > envelope information from the SMTP server this doesn't always work
> > perfectly.
> 
> 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.

Jason Clifford
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