From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gkrtp-0001td-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:48:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAH0hOOR016752; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:43:24 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAH0cDIw008909 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:38:14 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so416442pyi for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:38:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fOicObnUeTfEqRSiZgqEnV147dbeTIp/B0+m9T93ppT9RVpuw7MTV/EMEuazaBaqE9SoI8tFMCJNmOxInQUmUTt12zdFU/kZwyEqrjGPOQ21gIMQvtkDX8gKhw8zOJ3XUeJjVlHBqf+joB/FA/6dRLhAuFAF/53gygCsXhqAe7Q= Received: by 10.35.27.1 with SMTP id e1mr1961940pyj.1163723892556; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.82.14 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:38:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <17bd4e850611161638x7c16c991j78b2083cb72e3910@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:38:12 +1300 From: "Ralph Slooten" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery In-Reply-To: <17bd4e850611161629k53f7da19h464ffee7344692ef@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <17bd4e850611161629k53f7da19h464ffee7344692ef@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 701b9cbd-8295-4352-a47e-58c466591aad X-Archives-Hash: 4ebc30bc02f64cd9f97167e62eb5b417 Another problem I am having is that when two users are specified, one existing, and another (non-existing, or even another domain) the message goes to postmaster, and not to the specified user. On 17/11/06, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Hi Guys. > > I am trying to replace a server setup at one of our client's offices. > They have a domain name, and an email account - both hosted by a 3rd > party. This third party gives them a single pop3 account where all > email is stored (for all @domain.com), downloadable by a single > user login. > > Now the old setup (which I had nothing to do with) uses fetchmail to > poll the server every 10 minutes, and then forwards the mail to the > smtp on the localhost. > > I have tried to replicate this, but am hitting several disadvantages, > one being that all spam messages sent to non-existing users are > forwarded to the local postmaster account. I keep thinking that there > must be a much more logical way to do this. When I try it without > setting the postmaster messages are not bounced. > > How is this setup normally done? The local server has postfix running, > but is *not* accessable from outside directly (firewalled). Mail will > have to be polled I guess. > > I am using the following fetchmail conf: > > set postmaster "postmaster" set bouncemail set properties "" set > syslog set invisible set daemon 600 poll pop3.server.com > protocol POP3 > checkalias > timeout 30 > envelope "Received:" > localdomains mydomain.com > user accountuser pass accountpass to * here > smtphost localhost > smtpaddress mydomain.com > fetchall; > > Any advice? > > Thanks in advance, > Ralph > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list