[fetchmail]multifrop mails

[Matthias Andree]

Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com> writes:

> The answer is - fetchmail is doing what it is told.  The "problem"
> lies with your QMail config.  Either change it to direct misaddressed
> email to "tata" or change it to tell fetchmail when the account
> doesn't exist.

qmail's inbound daemons (qmail-smtp, qmail-qmtp, qmail-qmqp,
qmail-queue, qmail-inject, sendmail) have no means of knowing that the
account does not exist. There are third-party patches that can achieve
this but they need extra maintenance.

The workaround is to let qmail handle the catchall handling, for example
to configure the _right_ catchall in qmail, one might use:

    echo '&tata' >~alias/.qmail-default

and to leave fetchmail alone.

The real fix is to do away with decrepit qmail.

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Matthias Andree