Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts
On 2004-02-10, Nano Nano penned:
> I have seven different email accounts at Comcast.net, all used for
> various purposes. At the comcast level I have mail forwarded / don't
> leave a copy for six of the emails to the "primary" email. Then I use
> fetchmail to deliver the mail to my local user spool.
>
> It's efficient and easy (only poll one pop account), get all mail in
> one fell swoop, but it's impossible to tell which of the seven emails
> spam with forged headers was orignally delivered to -- comcast doesn't
> add any headers when it does its internal forwarding.
>
> I'm thinking what I need to do is stop the internal forwarding at
> comcast and have fetchmail poll each pop account seperately. Can I
> configure fetchmail or exim to add a header so I can still deliver all
> the mail to the same spool? If not, should I create bogus user
> accounts with shell=/bin/false and just give RW permissions to my
> account on their spools?
>
You can poll as many accounts as you'd like and dump them all to the
same spool file. Fetchmail doesn't care. But maybe I don't understand
your question properly, as you talk about adding a header, and I don't
see why you would want this ...
--
monique
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