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How can I use fetchmail with qmail?

April 26, 2017fetchmail Qmail

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How can I use fetchmail with qmail?

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Turn on the forcecr option; qmail’s listener mode doesn’t like header or message lines terminated with bare linefeeds. (This information is thanks to Robert de Bath .) If a mailhost is using the qmail package (see http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html) then, providing the local hosts are also using qmail, it is possible to set up one fetchmail link to be reliably collect the mail for an entire domain. One of the basic features of qmail is the `Delivered-To:’ message header. Whenever qmail delivers a message to a local mailbox it puts the username and hostname of the envelope recipient on this line. The major reason for this is to prevent mail loops. To set up qmail to batch mail for a disconnected site the ISP-mailhost will have normally put that site in its `virtualhosts’ control file so it will add a prefix to all mail addresses for this site. This results in mail sent to ‘username@userhost.userdom.dom.