Re: Fetchmail trouble with mailing lists

[Tony Middleton <tony10@ximera.net>]

This is one of the interesting features of Fetchmail.

You say you are using Fetchmail with a multidrop mailbox.  It may be 
that Fetchmail is not looking for the correct header to determine the 
address to deliver to.  Look in the fetchmail man pages in the sections 
on "envelope" and "Header vs Envelope Addresses".  Check the headers of 
delivered messages to see what your ISP uses.

Regards

Tony Middleton


Erik Dörnbach wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I'm having a Debian Sarge box here running fetchmail, sendmail, spamass-milter. Mail
> retrieved by fetchmail from 2 multidrop POP accounts is delivered to local sendmail (for 
> spam check) and then forwarded via mailertable to an Exchange server. Everything on the
> Debian box are official (well, testing) debs.
>
> When any user on the Exchange is subscribed to a mailing list just like this, mail will be
> delivered localy on the Debian box to the account set as postmaster in the global 
> fetchmailrc (running daemon mode btw). The original reciever's address is neither seen in 
> any logfiles or in the postmaster mbox, just the ml address (which can ofcourse not be 
> delivered).
>
>
> What did I miss here?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik