Re: [SLUG] Fetchmail and multidrop help needed

[Brian Martin <martinbj@nospam.ozemail.com.au>]

John,

Thanks for your explanation of pros & cons of various mail approaches.

I appreciate that using fetchmail & some scripts to split up mail
to appropriate user is advised against in every howto etc, 
and I agree it's wrong approach for a "big" site (say 10+ users).

However I think it sounds very suitable for what I think is actually
the majority of home users - to make a single call to ISP, collect all
mail to someone@nospam.isp.com.au and split it into mine, my wifes, the kids etc.
I don't have a perm IP addr, don't want to worry about calling every 4 hrs
to avoid sendmail timeouts, don't (yet) have a domain name, etc.

I want to do exactly what you mention, 90% of the mail is mine, I mainly
want to divert the occasional mail automatically to other family members,
& doesnt matter if anything too hard remains in the default case.

I would appreciate a copy of your config if you have the time please.

Thanks very much,
Brian


At 04:24 PM 28/01/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:35:28PM -0800, Matthew Sanderson wrote:
>
>> The problem is that I'm trying to do precisely what fetchmail's manpage
>> says does not work well: fetch mail from a multi-drop mailbox using IMAP
>

..... snip .....

>> Could someone mail me a working .fetchmailrc for this situation? It's not
>> a very unusual one, I believe.
>
>Setup fetchmail in single user mode, and use procmail and a perl program
>to process each message.  Ugly, needs regular care and maintenance (a rule
>for each mailing list), and there'll probably be mail that still can't be
>delivered and will need manual intervention.  I do this at home, and it
>works mostly because there's only two of us, and we don't change list
>subscriptions often.
>
>If you *really* want to do this, let me know and I'll send you what I use
>at home.
>

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Brian Martin, martinbj@nospam.ozemail.com.au
Future Software Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.


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