Fetchmail Configuration

[Phil Brooks]

>
>> When I download mail, I need it to go to a straight to the mail queue
>> e.g.
>> postfix's mail queue, from there I want the Alias table to redirect the
>> mail to which ever user its for.
>
> Simply run Postfix locally. fetchmail will pass the fetched mail over to
> the MTA.

how should i configure fetchmail? - there seems to be mention of a -MTA
switch?

Should I setup a specific user to run the fetchmail command,
  e.g. at the moment i've setup a user called mailbox which is used for
the collection of mail.

or is there a standard user which should be used when collecting the mail
form the ISP? by this i don't mean the ISP POP Username, im refering to
the local user of which mailbox the mail is downloaded into.

>
>> The main reason for this is that if there is a mail addressing error the
>> error message will not be sent the originator.
>
> What do you mean by addressing error? If the sender used a non valid
> email address the mail would hardly be on the remote POP3 server
> available. Only if the remote MTA would accept all mail by a catch-all
> entry. But this is nowadays hardly to recommend (masses of spam and
> virus/worm mails will quickly flood the mail recipient).
>





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Regards,

Phil




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Phil


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