[ILUG] mail duplicates

[Juan Flynn]

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Niall O Broin wrote:

|> * 1 POP account at the ISP per local account, collected via fetchmail,
|>   or whatever
|> * Proper SMTP, perhaps with a backup MX at the ISP
|
| Yes, of course that's the sane way to go. But my point was that very many
| people have ended up with all the email for their company delivered to one
| mailbox, and that sucks large hairy rocks. But it is amazingly
difficult to
| persaude people of how bad that is, because just like Windows, it mostly
| works.

The multiple-users-into-one-POP-box situation doesn't work well with
many mailing lists where the To: field, or indeed any message header, is
not that of the intended recipient. If, for whatever reason, you ARE
stuck with this situation, you could get the MTA that accepts the
incoming message to add an 'Envelope-to' header to the email before
putting it in the single POP mailbox. I believe this is easy to do in
Exim (envelope_to_add = true in exim.conf) but I've never done it
myself. You can then fetchmail the mailbox and then sort it out
according to the Envelope-to headers.

Juan

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