block emails with Fetchmail...
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 20 12:39:27 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:04 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Fetchmail fetches email from the remote POP3 Server then it alters the
> To address as to make it suitable for local delivery. Then it passes
> the email to sendmail. Now sendmail tricked by the altered To address
> believes that the email is for local delivery and for that reason it
> passes the email to the local mailer
Here it doesn't mangle the TO header, at all. Though I can imagine it
setting the envelope to header, that will control delivery without
modifying an address that it should leave alone.
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