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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:23:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061117232338.67bca377@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455E1EC3.2020005@gmail.com>

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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:42:43 +1300, Ralph Slooten wrote:

> > Are you running a local MTA? If so, this is set in the MTA's config;
> > for example in Postfix you would set "luser_relay=someuser".  
> 
> Yes, I can also specify this in the fetchmailrc, but it doesn't solve
> the problem that userA does not receive his mail if userB is not known.

So if a mail is sent to A and B and only A is a valid user, both copies
go to postmaster?

> All this does (I believe) is forward the unknown users to another
> machine. There is no other machine to forward to as all the users are on
> this current machine itself.

Not so, it forwards all mail for unknown users at one of your domains to
a specified user, so I have "luser_relay=neil" to get all such mail sent
to myself.

> The unknown users I am referring to are
> other users from different domains (not ours) included in the To and CC
> fields.

Ah, I see now. Having never used fetchmail in multi-drop mode (RTFMing
is a good way of making sure I don;t even attempt things like this) I
don;t know where you'd go next.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17  0:29 [gentoo-user] Multi-user pop3 mail delivery Ralph Slooten
2006-11-17  0:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Ralph Slooten
2006-11-17 10:24   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-17 20:42     ` Ralph Slooten
2006-11-17 23:23       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-11-18 10:09         ` Ralph Slooten

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