Re: [fetchmail-users] Multi-drop problems

[Andrew Longland-M. <an...@lo...>]

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:07 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Andrew Longland-Meech <an...@lo...> writes:
> 
> > Hello list members,
> >
> > I hope someone can help me - I can't be the only person to have ever run
> > into this problem. I've read the FAQ, but that doesn't seem to describe
> > my situation and I've tried everything I can think of.
> >
> > Here's my setup:
> >
> > fetchmail version: 6.3.4
> > Kernel:	2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc5.ccrma
> > ISP: Freenetname.co.uk
> >
> > My ISP provides forwarding from my own domain, and each and every email
> > I receive has a proper Envelope-to; header.
> >
> > I want to have mail for (mypartner)@(mydomain).me.uk delivered to
> > localuser (mypartner) and everything else delivered to localuser (me).
> >
> > Here's my .fetchmailrc file:
> >
> > set postmaster "(me)"
> > set bouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set properties ""
> > #set daemon 900
> > poll mail.freenetname.co.uk with proto POP3 envelope "Envelope-to"
> >         user "(username)@freenetname.co.uk" with password "(*******)"
> >                 to      "(mypartner)@(mydomain).me.uk"="(mypartner)"
> >                         "(username)@freenetname.co.uk"="(me)"
> >                         "(myname)@(mydomain).me.uk"="(me)"
> >                 here
> >         options keep fetchall
> >
> > Now, I think this is setup correctly, following the example in the man
> > page for a multi-drop setup, and indeed fetchmail seems to be using the
> > Envelope-to address according to the output of 'fetchmail -v -v' but it
> > simply isn't doing what it's supposed to and matching the server names
> > to the local names! Everything still gets delivered to (me) and contains
> > a header of the form -
> >
> > X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address (Envelope-to address) didn't
> > match any local name
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Well, fetchmail doesn't support full addresses in user mappings yet,
> thus you'll need to rewrite your configuration a bit, hoping that
> (mypartner) is different from (username) and that
> (mypartner) is also different from (myname).
> 
> fetchmail doesn't seem to recognize the recipient addresses either since
> the MX servers for these are most likely not the same as
> mail.freenetname.co.uk.
> 
> Please add between the poll and user lines these three:
> 
> poll mail.freenetname.co.uk
>        aka "(mydomain).me.uk"
>        aka "freenetname.co.uk"
>        proto POP3
>        options UIDL
>        envelope "Envelope-To"
> user "(username)@freenetname.co.uk" 
>        password "(*******)"
>   is   "(mypartner)"="(mypartner)"
>        "(username)"="(me)"
>        "(myname)"="(me)"
>   here
> options keep
> 
> Remarks:
> 1. fetchall and keep together is usually wrong
> 2. UIDL is needed to make "keep" setups reliable
> 
Matthias,

Thank you so much. It works! I didn't understand the bit in the manual
about 'aka', but having now re-read it, it sort of makes sense.

I only used keep and fetchall together so that I'd always got some
fetchable messages on the server whilst I was trying to get this to
work. Do I still need 'uidl' if I don't use 'keep'?

Thanks again.

Andrew