Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

[Mihai Badici]

I remember back in the dialup era there was a small company in Timisoara 
who tried to sell this kind of solution. (They started to sell servers 
after a while so I guess they didn't have much success selling  their 
workaround) So I guess it is not trivial to sort again all the mails and 
deliver each one in a mailbox after you mixed all together in a single 
catchall mailbox. Could be done for sure but it is some work to do...  
Also there is some management: what to do with the catchall mailbox? 
Delete each mail after successfully downloaded? Use IMAP and sync it for 
a while to have a backup?

On 10/26/20 6:34 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> [...]
>> I could not find anything there related to multidrop or "catch all" mailboxes.
> [...]
>> Nothing like that there either.
> [...]
>> This is a huge document with little introduction. It seems to be
>> mostly about fighting spam. I did not find anything like the setup I described.
> looks like the collective wisdom of this group can't provide precisely
> what you are looking for. You may need to figure it out by yourself.
>
> Btw., why is an open port 25 evil if the MTA is configured correctly?
> Can you elaborate, please?
>
> best regards
> ---
> Michael Schumacher
>