OT Multiple recipient email
David Fletcher
dave at thefletchers.net
Thu Jan 21 10:45:34 UTC 2010
My email server went down a couple of weeks ago, so now I'm trying to get it
configured again.
It's just about working, but there's a little problem that I never managed to
find before.
The server is configured firstly as an outgoing mail relay using postfix with
sasl to work as an authenticated smtp client. This appears to be working just
fine.
At my email provider One and One, there is a mail box used to collect mail for
multiple people, with forwards set up to direct mail for john at example.com,
mary at example.com etc. to the same box.
This mail box is emptied by fetchmail running as a cron job, which passes
messages to procmail for filtering and sorting.
Normally, this works.
AFAICT my problem is, if a single message is sent to multiple recipients
@example.com, it goes into the One and One mail collection box as a single
message with multiple recipients, gets collected by fetchmail as a single
message, then gets dropped by procmail into the first matching local mail box
it finds, so that only one of the recipients actually receives the message.
I can log into the One and One mail box with web mail, and sure enough it
shows a single message with multiple recipients.
Is it possible to somehow tell fetchmail to make multiple copies of these
messages before passing them on to procmail?
Or is this what's happening? See
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-man.html
quote "Also, note that in multidrop mode duplicate mails are suppressed. A
piece of mail is considered duplicate if it has the same message-ID as the
message immediately preceding and more than one addressee. Such runs of
messages may be generated when copies of a message addressed to multiple
users are delivered to a multidrop box. "
I've been searching for a solution to this all morning, can't find it.
Can anybody help me please?
Dave
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