Re: mail sorting tool
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:21:56 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
>On Wednesday 3 January 2001, at 15 h 15, the keyboard of Robert Waldner
><Waldner@KPNQwest.at> wrote:
>
>> make your local mailer (sendmail, exim, whatever) feeling "responsible"
>> for the domain and simply use fetchmail to pop the mails
>
>This needs an account on the ISP's machine for every local user. Inconvenient.
Uh, why? As far as I understood, Martin has _one_ POP-account
(domain-in-a-box this feature is called by us) with his ISP.
He now can use fetchmail to get the mails, and fetchmail will deliver
it to localhost:25, no matter what´s in From, To, Cc, whereever. Only
one account needed.
The only problem with a setup like this is, that it´s exploitable by
spammers, as they can set whatever they wnat in To: or Bcc: and deliver
it into the box, the local mailer only sees the mails coming from
localhost and will usually happily deliver them all (but, hey, that´s
the intention with the local MTA, isn´t it? ;-) ). But as the ISPs
mailservers are usually quite hardened, this shouldn´t be too much of a
problem.
hth,
&rw
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