> > Use the option "satellite system". > > No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of > any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in > /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. Among other > things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail near impossible. I
Hmm, strange. My fetchmail doesn't know of this limitation. It happily gets the mails and handels them to smail and smail delivers them. I'll append my config to this mail. > IMAP or POP-capable MUAs exclusively, and don't ever want local mail to go > on. However, it has the potential to set you up to send mail to system I have no problem to send mail between the accounts on my system. > accounts at your ISP about what's happeneing on your box, which with some > ISPs could annoy them greatly. Use the internet host option. Yes, this is annoying, but it doen't happen on my box. > > > from my machine, smail says in the logfiles that the hostname peter is not > > > valid. The From: line of the mail ontains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and > > > therefore smail > > > doesn't sem to send the mail. > > > > > I have also observed this behaviour if you say "internet site" in > > smailconfig. > > > > Well, I just re-configured my machine's smail a few times checking this > out, and I don't see this behavior - I'm betting that it's your smarthost > which is rejecting the mails, and smail is reporting the reason for > rejection in the logs. Check to see if right before the rejection message > there's a line that says something like "destination supports esmtp > 8BITMIME SIZE" - if so, then smail is making the connection to your > smarthost before the rejection message, which would seem to point the > finger at your smarthost. > I have set up a debian server at my university a month ago (using the "internet site" option. The university's dnsmaster didn't set up a MX record for my host although he said it was set up. The fqdn is bundy.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de, and I set the visible name to internet-treff.uni-koeln.de. As long as the MX wasn't set up, I got a reply from the mailsystem (DNS lookup failed for internet-treff.uni-koeln.de) if I tried to send mail from the system. The same for mails to the system using the MX address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). So: here is my setup. Local mail gets delivered without problems (check with mailx root). If offline, mail will be queued by smail (I have a "runq" in my ip-up to send it as soon as I connect; smail tries every 20 min. nethertheless). If online, it will sent the mail immediatelly. hostname --fqdn haitech.internet-treff.de cat /etc/smail/config [...] visible_name=uni-koeln.de -domains hostnames=haitech:localhost:haitech.internet-treff.de:internet-treff.de [...] cat .fetchmailrc poll 194.8.194.71 protocol pop3 username myname password mypasswd is martinb here smtphost localhost ---- yes, my name at my isp is not martinb. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .