Topic: Multidrop and headers

[Bob Thompson]

This is a slightly complicated question, but I suspect it may have a simple answer...
We have two offices, one in another city. Email sent to our domain is received at our main office, and any destined for the remote office is forwarded to a POP3 server hosted by a local ISP. We have an Esmith server set up and working with the POP3 multidrop system, and email is being collected by the Esmith system, but is not being forwarded to the users (it ends up in the default unknown user email address) I have had a look at the headers on the sent emails, and the To: field is the only one which has the correct user id, but it has the domain for the main office, not the Esmith server. The other headers have the ISP's POP3 address. What can we use to sort the emails, and alternatively, does anyone know where there's a FAQ or any other information about email headers?

Thanks,


Bob

[Luuk Jansen]

I had the same problem, and I don't know why it doesn't work. With 4.0 it worked good, but with 4.1(.1) it gives problems (I'm glad I'm not the only one)

I don't know if you are on the 'devlist', there I posted my solution.
Below a copy of that, if you have any questions, port is to the phorum:

I solved my fetchmail problem two weeks ago, and it seems to work right now.
The only thing is that I've done it with a 'trick' I think (suggestion from an other e-smith user).

Normal with the 'default' sorting method using 'multidrop' fetchmail looks to the account name before the ISP domain name (accountname@ISPDomein.com).
With 4.0 this worked fine with me, but with 4.1 it doesn't. I got the message 'recipient address oosterveld@kombiform.nl didn't match any local name'.

Then I created a virtual domain called 'ISPdomain' and fetchmail worked well.
Problem solved I thought, but because the internal network users use the site at 'ISPdomain', and e-smith redirected the site to the 'mydomain' site, they weren't ably to work with it anymore. Then I added a redirection in the 'hostnames and addresses' configuration (e-smith-manager) to the IP address from the ISPdomain (redirection: www.ispdomein.nl to IP-adres). Then it worked fine, I suppose because I didn't hear any complains from their site.

The reason that I wrote this is to support people who have the same problem...

Luuk

[Bob Thompson]

Thanks Luuk - that looks promising, I'll give it a try.

Bob

[Bob Thompson]

Well, that didn't work - it looks like Qmail does not see the To: header at all after the mail has gone through the forwarding process. I'll keep trying....

Bob

[huw finney]

Hi,

Had (have) the same problem, virtual domains sort the mail but then you can't see the web etc. of the 'virtualized' sites.  I don't like the idea of putting a fixed IP in my hosts section (it might change).  This gets a bit complicated when you have a cheap (free) domain, huws.org.uk is mine and mail is redirected.  Gets realy silly when 'anything'@huws.org.uk gets sent to huwfinney@blueyonder.co.uk and I want to sort it. Perhaps the best thing to do is wait for a fix from e-smith.  Mind you I can't complain at the price!

Huw