According to Paul Schinder:
>
> >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.
Just tried it, works like a charm!
Finally, after a month of wrestling with sendmail's rule-set, and a
week of figuring out qmail, I have an operative well-configured
E-mail system on my home Linux box. I am tickled pink<g>
Many thanks!
Alan
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