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[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Support @ S. N. <su...@ma...> - 2007-01-06 00:30:18

Is it possible to use fetchmail to download from a catch all pop account and then place the downloaded email into postfix for local delivery

ISP  ------> FETCHMAIL -------> POSTFIX -----------> USERMAIL BOX

At present to achieve this I have to download the emails from the ISP to a catch all user account on my local server, then filter them using .forward and a procmail recipe.  
Is there an easier way to make fetchmail download the emails directly to the local server's mail queue so that postfix can the email to the corresponding local user. (I am running postfix and cyrus)

Many thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Phil Brooks
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[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Support @ S. N. <su...@ma...> - 2007-01-06 00:41:35

Is it possible to use fetchmail to download from a catch all pop account and then place the downloaded email into postfix for local delivery

ISP  ------> FETCHMAIL -------> POSTFIX -----------> USERMAIL BOX

At present to achieve this I have to download the emails from the ISP to a catch all user account on my local server, then filter them using .forward and a procmail recipe.  
Is there an easier way to make fetchmail download the emails directly to the local server's mail queue so that postfix can the email to the corresponding local user. (I am running postfix and cyrus)

Many thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Phil Brooks

Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Matthias A. <mat...@gm...> - 2007-01-06 10:51:22

One posting is enough.

Support @ Smart Networking schrieb am 2007-01-05:

> Is there an easier way to make fetchmail download the emails directly
> to the local server's mail queue so that postfix can the email to the
> corresponding local user. (I am running postfix and cyrus)

yes

check the manpage, http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop
and fetchmail's envelope option.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Support @ S. N. <su...@ma...> - 2007-01-06 12:12:04

Im finding it hard to decide which is the best solution to use.
It looks like copies of emails could potentially either disapear into the etha or even worse be delivered to a user which should not even receive them eg. Bcc
What is the best solution ?
Could you show me the location of a .fetchmailrc script that I could look at?

Thanks Phil
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Is it possible to use fetchmail to download from a catch all pop account and then place the downloaded email into postfix for local delivery

ISP ------> FETCHMAIL -------> POSTFIX -----------> USERMAIL BOX

At present to achieve this I have to download the emails from the ISP to a catch all user account on my local server, then filter them using .forward and a procmail recipe.
Is there an easier way to make fetchmail download the emails directly to the local server's mail queue so that postfix can the email to the corresponding local user. (I am running postfix and cyrus)

Many thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Phil Brooks

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Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Rob M. <rob...@gm...> - 2007-01-06 20:37:06

On 1/6/07, Support @ Smart Networking <su...@ma...> wrote:
> Im finding it hard to decide which is the best solution to use.
> It looks like copies of emails could potentially either disapear into the
> etha

Only if you've managed to completely break your postfix setup.
Fetchmail doesn't lose emails (though see the section on Spam
Filtering - fetchmail *will* drop emails with the same message ID if
it's already seen them).

> or even worse be delivered to a user which should not even receive them
> eg. Bcc

Depends on whether your ISP provides the required headers.  If the
email contains no details as to the user it was intended for then
you're out of luck.  This is documented in the man page under
"multi-drop".

> What is the best solution ?

Depends on the message headers you have to work with.

> Could you show me the location of a .fetchmailrc script that I could look
> at?

They're in the man page :)

If you could provide a sample header from an email (ideally one BCCd)
then I'm sure somebody can provide something a little more.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail to Postfix

From: Matthias A. <mat...@gm...> - 2007-01-07 15:43:04

"Support @ Smart Networking" <su...@ma...> writes:

> Im finding it hard to decide which is the best solution to use. 
> It looks like copies of emails could potentially either disapear into the etha or even worse be delivered to a user which should not even receive them
> eg. Bcc
> What is the best solution ?

Not using catchall mailboxes, and using an ISP who has a clue about
setting up catchall mailboxes properly, i. e. in a way that DOES NOT
lose Bcc recipients. Details in the URL I posted earlier.

Oh, and do fix your quoting and do not post junk - it's awful to read,
threading is broken, unreadable and everything. I'm not going too look
at this thread any more. Sorry.

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