Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/26/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> Nedavno Stuart J. Browne pise:
>
> | POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
> | seperately.
>
>
> But I do not want to get the body separately, I want NOT to get mail at
> all after fetching headers (if I find that that particular mail is for
> user that does not exist on my mail server). Looking at fetchmail log
> it seems to me that it can be done:
<---SNIP--->
> But I do not knew how how to do that :-(

In summary of what others have said in this thread:

1) You CANNOT do that with POP3.  You have to switch to IMAP to solve
your problem.
2) To not forward mis-addressed email you have to set the postmaster
address to ""

Also known as, fetchmail cannot make up for the shortcomings of your
ISP or the way you've configured it.

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