Re: [fetchmail-users] "requires envelope option!"

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

Anne Wilson schrieb:
> I'm now fetching my husband's mail, as well as my own (using fetchmail with 
> cron, running as david), but I'm getting:
> 
> fetchmail: warning: multidrop for pop3.mailbox.co.uk requires envelope option!
> fetchmail: warning: Do not ask for support if all mail goes to postmaster!

As it says, you configured multidrop fetching without also configuring the
envelope option, and that's usually the source of "undelivered" messages.

Details on multidrop are in the manual page, if some part of the multidrop
documentation is unclear, let me know which one so I can improve it.
Relevant sections:

Singledrop vs. Multidrop options
THE USE AND ABUSE OF MULTIDROP MAILBOXES
Good Ways To Use Multidrop Mailboxes
Bad Ways To Abuse Multidrop Mailboxes
Speeding Up Multidrop Checking

HTH
Matthias.