Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

fetchmail with multidrop & mailing lists

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users fetchmail with multidrop & mailing lists
# 1  
Old 11-07-2006
fetchmail with multidrop & mailing lists
At the moment we as using fetchmail (SLES9, 6.2.5) to pick up our
emails (for approx 200 users) from our multidrop box. Everything
works fine as long as the receivers address is in the TO: header.

for example To: <firstname.lastname@to_domain.tld>

Our problem is that when users are on a mailling list, the email with the following headers

To: <mailing.list@from_domain.tld>
X-Envelope-To: <firstname.lastname@domain.tld>

is delivered to postmaster account because the To: address is not recognised. These mails must be then manually forwarded (from admin)
to their receivers.

Question?

How do we have to setup fetchmail to use the X-Envelope-To:
header if the To: header is not recognised. Will this have any
side-effects for SPAM and such.


This is our /etc/fetchmailrc

defaults proto pop3
set postmaster postmaster@to_domain.tld
poll post.provider.tld localdomains to_domain.tld:
user "postmaster@to_domain.tld" with pass "mypass" to * here


Your Help would be very welcomed, as our users are complaining
that the emails are taking to long to arrive.
(mostly they are mails with iron/steel/copper prices)

Best Regards

Frieling
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

7 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

organise mailing lists in email client

mr macos please bare with me i couldnt find a place to post my issue and hence m posting it here How do you organise mailing lists in your email client? How do you guys organise your mailing lists? I'm having a few issues with my set up: When I subscribe to a mailing list I add a rule in the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: georgekhaidas
2 Replies

2. Red Hat

Logs & Lists to Save before httpd restart when web server freezes?

Hello... We keep having a problem with the httpd freezing and users getting time outs. I am not the Sys Admin but since I am the 1st one in, I have to restart the httpd server. Is there a list of items I should collect before I restart in order to help with trouble shooting? I currently... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: djlerman
3 Replies

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Fetchmail multidrop mode to work with Zimbra server

Hi, We want to setup a multidrop configuration with our Zimbra server. Please help us to setup a .fetchmailrc file. We are using Fetmail 6.3.9 version. Single mails are fetching without any problems. What are the things to take care while setting up a multidrop? POP server: mail.company.com... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: brittocj
0 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell Script to Create non-duplicate lists from two lists

File_A contains Strings: a b c d File_B contains Strings: a c z Need to have script written in either sh or ksh. Derive resultant files (File_New_A and File_New_B) from lists File_A and File_B where string elements in File_New_A and File_New_B are listed below. Resultant... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: mlv_99
7 Replies

5. Linux

Fetchmail Help

Hello there Unix & Linux Guru's and Gifted ones, Can anyone help me configure fetchmail on my redhat 9.0 This sounds to be silly but really I'm new to linux. I really need step by step installation and configuration on our company's required Redhat 9.0 (shrike) OS. Thank you and God... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: struggled_boy
2 Replies

6. Linux

help creating mailing lists

hey everyone ..i wanted to know how to create mailing lists with sendmail and postifx and wanted to know about mailmans ...would be nice if some has used mailman.. (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: tarunicon
0 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

fetchmail taking long time to fetchmail...

Hi peeps, We are having around 60 users. The time set to retrieve the mail is 300 sec. But it's taking around 1 hour to deliver mails. I am using debian sarge 3.1. any clues? And how it will affect if I decrease the time? My machine has got 1 p4 3.0 GHZ processor and 1 GB ram. The home... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: squid04
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

wmail

WMAIL(1)							   User Commands							  WMAIL(1)

NAME

       wmail - watches your inbox

SYNOPSIS

       wmail [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmails Maildir format. It
       provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox.

       -display <string>
	      display to use

       -c, --command <string>
	      command to run on button-click ("xterm -e mail" is default)

       -i, --intervall <number>
	      number of seconds between mail-status updates (1 is default)

       -f, --familyname
	      tickers the family-name if available

       -fps, --frames <number>
	      ticker frames per second

       -s, --shortname
	      tickers the nickname (all before the '@')

       -sc, --symbolcolor <string>
	      symbol color-name

       -fc, --fontcolor <string>
	      ticker-font color-name

       -bc, --backcolor <string>
	      backlight color-name

       -oc, --offcolor <string>
	      off-light color-name

       -bg, --background <string>
	      frame-background for non-shaped window

       -ns, --noshape
	      make the dockapp non-shaped (combine with -w)

       -n, --new
	      forces wmail to show new mail exclusively

       -mb, --mailbox <string>
	      specify another mailbox ($MAIL is default)

       -e, --execute <string>
	      command to execute when receiving a new mail

       -sf, --statusfield
	      consider the status-field of the mail header to distinguish unread mails

       -rs, --readstatus <string>
	      status field content that your client uses to mark read mails

       -fn, --tickerfont <string>
	      use specified X11 font to draw the ticker

       -h, --help
	      shows this help text and exit

       -v, --version
	      shows program version and exit

       -w, --windowed
	      runs the application in windowed mode

ENVIRONMENT

       wmail recognizes the following environment variables:

       $MAIL

	      The location of the inbox you are using

NOTES

       Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. Use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail.

AUTHORS

       wmail was written by Sven Geisenhainer. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel.

SEE ALSO

       fetchmail(1).

July 2006					    wmail v2.0 (C) 2000~2002 Sven Geisenhainer						  WMAIL(1)