Re: [fetchmail-users] Change message as it is resent?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

David Davis <dda...@ya...> writes:

> Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:\
>
>     You can use one of the tiny sendmail-to-SMTP clients (too many to list)
>     along with a shell script and use this shell script as "mda" to
>     fetchmail. Adding said header can be done with reformail which ships in
>     Sam Varshavchik's "maildrop" package.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> If I go the "mda" route, my little custom mda needs to be responsible for reliable delivery.   (Right?)  As far as fetchmail is concerned, the mail was
> sent successfully even if the final SMTP server down. Seems tricky.

fetchmail considers the exit code of the mda. == 0 means success, != 0 means failure.

> If I can't do this in fetchmail itself, perhaps an SMTP-to-SMTP
> data-munging proxy is the better route?  Does such a thing exist?

You can't "pull" with SMTP. 

> Also, can fetchmail "walk" all (or a subset of) an account's SMTP
> folders, or do I need to create a separate poll entry for each folder?

Separate poll entries are needed.

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Matthias Andree