| From: Peter King via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Recently we were forcibly "migrated" to Office365 for our email services, Interesting. I take it that this is per department. I just checked on email to my CS email account and it is only touched by Postfix and EXIM servers. | One of the last things | I cannot figure out how to solve is how to pass an alias email address to | the MS server. I'm not going to help you, I'm going try to learn from you. I don't understand fetchmail that well -- I set it up many many years ago and haven't looked at it since. What's an alias in this context? Is it like what newaliases(1) maintains for PostFix or Sendmail? | So in .fetchmailrc I have a line like this: | | user "prof.bozo@utoronto.ca\department.chair@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here I don't see \ used in this way in the fetchmail manual. I don't think it is what they call multidrop. Is it part of the IMAP protocol? Where is it documented? How about two different user lines: poll whatever.utoronto.ca user "prof.bozo@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here poll whatever.utoronto.ca user "department.chair@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here or even: poll whatever.utoronto.ca user "prof.bozo@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here user "department.chair@utoronto.ca" there with password "XYZZY" is bozo here PS: I've heard recommentations for getmail over fetchmail. I haven't needed to investigate. | But this fails, and in the fetchmail logfiles it represents the username as | not having a backslash: | | Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "prof.bozo@utoronto.camedieval.philosophy@utoronto.ca" * | Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP< A0002 NO LOGIN failed. | Jul 4 14:35:14 fetchmail[13829]: IMAP> A0003 LOGOUT | | If I double-backslash it, though, I get a double backslash in the username. | Ditto for triple, quadruple, and quintuple backslashes. Nor does it work | if I single-quote the backslash. | | According to the fetchmail manual, the backslash is used to communicate via | ASCII sequences and codes with fetchmail, and it's pretty clear that this | is part of the problem. What piece of the software is supposed to handle \ the way you expect? The sendmail manual seems to say that \ is just a way to denote tricky characters. So I think you expect your meaning of \ to be handled by the IMAP server. And that the old IMAP server did handle it.