in INBOX a copy of message for each recipient

[Davide Dalla Rosa <d....@pollisrl.it>]

Hi all. My installation of James retrieves mail from an external pop3 server
(Merak pop3, 8.9.1) and routes to lan.
The external pop3 server puts in INBOX folder a copy of the message for each
recipient, e.g. if some mail gets into merak with recipients tizio, caio and
sempronio (TO, CC, BCC, ...), merak puts in INBOX folder copies of the
message.
Is this behaviour pop3 protocol compliant? Does anybody knows if you can
configure this behaviour? i.e. set some flag in mekar telling it to put in
INOBX only a copy of the message?

Other strange thing is that accoding to James, merak mail server does not
support "permanent SEEN flag".
"Message marked as SEEN, but the folder does not support a permanent SEEN
flag".
What this mean?

thanks

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Re: in INBOX a copy of message for each recipient

[Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>]

Davide Dalla Rosa ha scritto:
> Hi all. My installation of James retrieves mail from an external pop3 server
> (Merak pop3, 8.9.1) and routes to lan.
> The external pop3 server puts in INBOX folder a copy of the message for each
> recipient, e.g. if some mail gets into merak with recipients tizio, caio and
> sempronio (TO, CC, BCC, ...), merak puts in INBOX folder copies of the
> message.
> Is this behaviour pop3 protocol compliant? Does anybody knows if you can
> configure this behaviour? i.e. set some flag in mekar telling it to put in
> INOBX only a copy of the message?

POP3 specification does not say anything about this.
You should ask other questions to Merak support (I, and probably others 
here, never used it).

> Other strange thing is that accoding to James, merak mail server does not
> support "permanent SEEN flag".
> "Message marked as SEEN, but the folder does not support a permanent SEEN
> flag".
> What this mean?

http://james.apache.org/server/2.3.0/fetchmail_configuration.html

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fetchmail Caveats

The POP3 protocol does not enforce support of any of the Flags 
associated with messages other than DELETED. This means that 
markseen="true" will most likely have no effect and therefore, the 
fetchall tag will be inoperative. In this situation, the only way to 
avoid repeatedly fetching the same mail is to delete it from the server 
using leaveonserver="false"/>.
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Stefano


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