Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

[stephen parkinson <stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk>]

Nano Nano wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>  
maybe of use

i access stephen of account zmemw16 on pop3.demon.co.uk

using login of 'stephen+zmemw16' in the fetchmailrc

similarly fred is 'fred+zmemw16'

srp