> >> 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). > -- Regards, Phil -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
