[fetchmail]multifrop mails

Payal Rathod payal-fetchmail@scriptkitchen.com
Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:16:08 -0500


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:11:12PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > Yes, it does always.
> 
> [ slaps hand against head ]

Don't, that brings bad luck :)

> The fetchmail "postmaster" address is only used when fetchmail is told
> - by the SMTP server - that the user doesn't exist.  Otherwise,
> fetchmail assumes, rightly, that the user exists, since the SMTP
> server hasn't objected.  It's possible that by just doing "to sales
> payal" here you'll get it to work, but I don't know as I've never
> tried.

Are you saying here, qmail does things the wrong way or I am thinking
in a wrong way?

> If it doesn't, you're basically going to have to make your mind up -
> do you want qmail to decide what to do with misaddressed email, or
> fetchmail.  It's one or the other.

I want fetchmail to handle misaddressed mail. So, you might say that
I remove .qmail-default, but what about misaddressed local mails
(which are not handled by fetchmail).

With warm regards,
-Payal