On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:42:43 +1300, Ralph Slooten wrote:

> > Are you running a local MTA? If so, this is set in the MTA's config;
> > for example in Postfix you would set "luser_relay=someuser".  
> 
> Yes, I can also specify this in the fetchmailrc, but it doesn't solve
> the problem that userA does not receive his mail if userB is not known.

So if a mail is sent to A and B and only A is a valid user, both copies
go to postmaster?

> All this does (I believe) is forward the unknown users to another
> machine. There is no other machine to forward to as all the users are on
> this current machine itself.

Not so, it forwards all mail for unknown users at one of your domains to
a specified user, so I have "luser_relay=neil" to get all such mail sent
to myself.

> The unknown users I am referring to are
> other users from different domains (not ours) included in the To and CC
> fields.

Ah, I see now. Having never used fetchmail in multi-drop mode (RTFMing
is a good way of making sure I don;t even attempt things like this) I
don;t know where you'd go next.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home.

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