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to: KEVIN CAMPBELL
from: ROB SZARKA
date: 1997-05-23 06:36:00
subject: SMTP

-*> Kevin Campbell spake unto Josh Fisher, saying <*-
 KC> Trouble is, I cannot use POP3 for the program I'm writing. I need to
 KC> be able to re-map domains, and POP3 only allows for a single address
 KC> (as far as I know).
 
I'm not sure whether this has any bearing on your programming
project--certainly, if you've got SMTP coming in and going out, you
don't need to kludge something together with POP3!--but your statement
is only sort of true.  ;)  POP3 is designed around a single "mailbox",
which does logically fit a single address, but that doesn't mean you
couldn't use it for multiple addresses.  We've hashed this out on the
DOS_INTERNET echo this year and agreed that, yes, you could safely use
POP to retrieve mail for multiple users *if* (and only if) you have some
way of preserving the envelope info when the message is delivered to the
mailbox, e.g., in an X-SMTP-envelope: header or something similar.  One
fellow, Joe Carter, posted some procmail scripts for doing just this,
and we're addinging support for POP3 as a multi-user transport mechanism
with the info preserved in a header to WaterGate 0.93, due out Real Soon
Now.
FWIW.  :)
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