Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@sonera.com> writes:

[...]

> 
> Well as pointed out, fetchmail does as it's told. For the very best
> solutions, it likes to use a local SMTP server, if not, then MDA, if
> not then maybe BSMTP delivery or whatever. That has nothing to do with
> this setup, it's just fetchmail configuration.

In this case it is using local SMTP.

[...]

> Um. IMAP has multiple folder support. Find out how your IMAP server
> handles multiple folder and store the messages to a folder named
> remote for example. Then just pass folder option in your fetchmailrc.

After cleaning up my fetchmail install but before studying up on imap
workings regarding `multiple folders' I just created a user account
for `laptop' on the parent machine.  Forward copies of all mail there,
and access that spool with the method you've explained.  This works
fine.

One problem has cropped up and may be fetchmail specific but the laptop
fetchmail (version 5.4.1) seems to be eating the `Return-Path: '
headers.

Viewing the messages on parent machine in /var/mail/spool/laptop  I
see those headers in tact.  But once moved to the laptop those headers
are gone.   The parent machine is fetching with fetchmail-5.3.1-1.

Could something in the methodology be causing this or do you think it
would be a fetchmail version issue?

Do you see something similar?