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Re: UUCP-over-TCP Vs Fetchmail



Oommen Thomas wrote:

> One doubt: Is it necessary for the local users to have logins on the
> remote server? Or aliases will do? Thats possible in UUCP.

Having an individual login for each user is not necessary. You can drop mails
for all the user in one particular mail account (a.k.a multidrop mailbox) on ur
remote server and retrieve all mails from that single mail account using
fetchmail. fetchmail can retrieve all the mails & distribute it locally. if you
plan to use multidrop mailboxes, then it may be advisable to set the
'X-Envelope-To' field or any such identifying field for all the mails in your
remote server. This is for fetchmail to identify which local user is the final
recipient.

-Sridhar


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