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I want to move an existing email setup in one of my friends place to Linux /OSS. Currently it is done using WInXP and Postmaster vpop mail server. ICS is enabled and clients can browse the net without using any proxy.

I am thinking of using FC6, Sendmail, Squid/IP Tables combination. The problem here is, that he has a domain name and email space with one service provider. This service provider gives an pop based email accont that is a "catch-all" account. VPOP does it brilliantly. It retrieves the emails from this email account and distributes it among the locally created email boxes.

I am unable to figure out how to do this with sendmail/fetchmail combination.

All I get from Googling is that fetchmail fetches individual emails. I dont understand how it distribues the mails specified for a particular user. Also, it has to be run by a particular user and not as a daemon. I want to understand the way we can retrieve the emails from the catch-all account and distribute it among local mailboxes.

Thanks for any inputs,

ricc

Catch-all or multipdrop box is configured as follows.

First sendmail a/c for user vivek tom jerry and rakhi for example.

You need to add code as follows to fetchmailrc file:
Now,
email send to vivek@domain.com will go to local sendmail a/c vivek
email send to tom@domain.com will go to local tom a/c
email send to jerry@domain.com will go to local jerry a/c
email send to rani@domain.com will go to local rakhi a/c

pop3.vsnl.net -> catch-all to POP3USERNAME@domain.com -> fetchmail -> send to a/c as per rule

Let me know if you need any further help

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Thanks Vivek,

I will try it out and post the result. I have a doubt about emails for users not created locally.

What happens to those emails which have the a spelling mistake. Like if Vivek was mistyped as Vivwk.

Can we redirect it to some default user in the system?. And which user do we run fetchmail as?. As root or can it be any user?

ricc