[H-GEN] conventional wisdom

[Michael Anthon]

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> Well, I'm assuming here you have only one user having their mail
> dropped into the POP folder on server A, so you're only delivering to
> one user on server B.
> 
> If that's the case, and you're running an SMTP enabled MTA on server
> B, the below .fetchmailrc file will do the job nicely 
> (fetchmail -d <check time>)
> 
> poll server.a with proto POP3
>        user 'sarah' there with password 'password' is 'sarah' here
> 

Why the restriction to one user?  I use this exact setup with multidrop and
it works wonderfully.

poll server.a with proto POP3
       user 'username' there with password 'password' is '*' here

The only catch with this is that the email address is not rewritten and the
message is sent to your local MTA for delivery.  This means that your MTA
must be set up to accept mail for the domain as local mail and not send it
back to the server pointed to by your MX, in which case you get a nice loop.

Cheers
Michael



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