Re: How getmail deals with delivery errors and with bounce e-mails

On 2020-11-03 09:42, R. Diez wrote:
>>> I thought that the whole point of a multidrop mailbox is that the
>>> internal mail server would process all e-mails and generate bounce
>>> messages if necessary.
>> 
>> If you are fetching emails from external servers it's for them to 
>> generate a bounce message ?
>> Why would you want to bounce mail already collected for the account ?
> 
> Because then I would have to replicate all e-mail accounts on both
> servers, the ISP (external) mail server and the internal (on premises)
> mail server. That is double the administrative work.
> 
> A single "catch all" address on the ISP mail server has no
> maintenance, and then I can manage the user accounts only on the
> internal mail server.

You are talking about a hosted domain somewhere separate to the ISP ?
How many email addresses do you need ?
To be fair I haven't looked how external hosted domain handles mail for 
ages
I assume it bounces accounts not listed, I should check.
I'm quite happy how it works for me with getmail, dovecot, 
dovecot-sieve, roundcube with manage-sieve plugin.

mick

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