Fetchmail and postfix 'mail forwarding loop' - SOLVED

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 16:54 schrieb vincent at acheson.uk.com:
> This will hopefully save somebody hours of googling........

Can you enter it in the wiki then? :)

> If using fetchmail with kolab, you may be collecting from an isp who uses
> qmail.  Qmail puts a 'delivered-to' line into the mail header.  When
> fetchmail passes such a mail onto postfix, postfix will read such a line in
> the header, and throw up a 'mail forwarding loop error, and not deliver the
> mail to the local user.
>
> The solution is to place 'dropdelivered' in the .fetchmailrc file as per
> the example which follows:
>
> poll mail at yourdomain.uk.com proto POP3
> user thisonedrovememad4hours at yourdomain.uk.com password foobar
> dropdelivered is localuser1 at yourdomain.uk.com here
> user foundtheanswer at yourdomain.uk.com password yippee@@ dropdelivered is
> foundtheanswer at yourdomain.uk.com here
>
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