On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:37:28 -0500 (EST), Alan McConnell wrote:
>
>When fetchmail attempts to deliver mail to my home box, from
>my ISP mail-box, qmail won't let it. qmail says:
>SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address 'alan@localhost'
>(actually that is what fetchmail is telling me that qmail tells it<g>)
>This is of course perfectly proper behavior of qmail.
>
>So I want to put something in my .fetchmailrc that tells fetchmail
>to deliver to "<whomever>@alan17.his.com". I thought that
>'localdomains alan17.his.com' in my .fetchmailrc would do it, but
>it doesn't show up when I run fetchmail -V.
>
>So maybe there is a qmail way of fixing this? something in qmail/alias?
>or qmail/control?
>
There's a simple fetchmail fix. I can't see any of my .fetchmailrc's at
the moment, but there's a fetchmail variable called "smtphost", or
something similar. So you can put smtphost your.host.name in the
.fetchmailrc, and it will use that instead of @localhost, in the RCPT
TO.
This is, of course, for sufficiently new fetchmails. I'm using the latest,
4.7.1.
>All suggestions gratefully accepted, and I apologize that this message
>is, perhaps, more about fetchmail than about qmail.
>
>TIA,
>
>Alan McConnell
>
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>
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