A while ago, I had a perfectly running fetchmail/qmail system. Fetchmail delivered all my mails to X@localhost where X was either my name or my wife's (our email addresses ar [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and qmail delivered to x, which is the account name on the linux box (see home.tvd.be/ws35056/linux/mail.htm Now it has all gone wrong, and I want to recover the good old days. My .fetchmailrc reads: poll mail.tvd.be with proto POP3 user "mb10056" with password "F7NK8TXx" to * here options forcecr and qmail is listening on port 25. Below is an exrtract from fetchmail -v -v About to rewrite To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rewritten version is To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to postmaster fetchmail: SMTP< 220 saskia.tvd.be ESMTP fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-P350.tvd.be fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<postmaster@localhost> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok And the following has been added to my mail headers X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any local name despite have the relevant alias files [root@P350 alias]# ls -la total 15 drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 1024 Jul 6 21:29 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 1024 Jun 29 22:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 alias nofiles 1155 Jun 29 22:48 .Xdefaults -rw-r--r-- 1 alias nofiles 24 Jun 29 22:48 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 alias nofiles 230 Jun 29 22:48 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 alias nofiles 124 Jun 29 22:48 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 5 Jul 6 21:29 .qmail-liesbeth:devriendt-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 Jun 29 22:51 .qmail-mailer-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 4 Jun 30 21:40 .qmail-postmaster -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 Jun 29 22:51 .qmail-postmaster~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 4 Jul 6 20:16 .qmail-root -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 Jun 29 22:51 .qmail-root~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 4 Jun 29 23:32 .qmail-simon:hampton -rw------- 1 alias qmail 3637 Jul 6 21:19 Mailbox /var/maillog simply confirms that fetchmail was sending the mail to postmaster, and this is what is happening for all mails If I put tvd.be in rcpthosts or locals I fear i will either create relay possibilities in the former case, and not be able to email other TVD subscribers in the latter. How can I once more get fetchmail to pass mails to X@localhost faithfully Simon -- -------------------- http://home.tvd.be/ws35056/ Latest pictures of Saskia: 20 June Latest pictures of Ludovic: 20 June
