Shyamal, Among other very useful things, you wrote: > This is the key part. Your mail is being delivered to ric@otte, and > I'm guessing this is fetchmail. But "otte" is not a local domain, so > it is being sent to your smart host. My question would be: where > exactly did you ask fetcmail to drop your mail (what is on the line > ending with "is xxx here")? > > Yes. It really should, unless fetchmail is qualifying the name to > start with. > You were right. My .fetchmailrc file read: poll cats.ucsc.edu proto POP3 user otte with password x is ric here keep smtphost otte
I believe it was that last line which was sending the mail to 'ric@otte'. After I changed that line to simply 'keep', I noticed that exim is now sending the mail to 'ric@localhost', which is fine. My hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 otte localhost 128.114.180.220 otte.ucsc.edu otte (with a buch of stuff that I don't understand about IPv6 capable hosts, added automaticaly by netbase upgrade) If this doesn't look ok to you, let me know. Thanks very much; it looks like things are working now. Best wishes, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]