[plug] fetchmail and postfix

[Scott, Simon]

ok, so answer me this.

If I have a single pop account (me at somewhere.com) how does fetchmail
seperate to different users? 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.smileys.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2000 7:57
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] fetchmail and postfix
> 
> 
> "Scott, Simon" wrote:
> > While we are on the subject, I know it is possible to use a 
> single POP
> > account somewhere for all users (mail is seperated I suppose by
> > something in the header?) but is it possible for each user 
> on a linux
> > box to run fetchmail in daemon mode and get it to fetchmail from
> > several pop accounts without running multiple fetchmail daemons?
> 
> Yes. Each daemon can do a swag of different fetches.
> 
> If you are also asking "can multiple clients fetch from one POP
> account?" the answer is almost always "no" but there are specific
> exceptions - in which each user fetches everything without 
> deleting it,
> and then at a specified time, a "final" user fetches and 
> deletes. But it
> is slow, complicated, and I personally guarantee that there 
> is a better,
> simpler way. The usualy method is to have your gateway box fetch
> everyone's mail, split it up and store it in local mailboxes, and then
> individual users each fetch from their own box in ther own 
> time. You can
> use yi.org or similar to make the box findable from the 
> outside world if
> you have any external users.
> 
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> Deleted, because it is both worthless and pointless.
> 
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