Simanta Handique forced the electrons to say:
> Hello,
>
> I have mail system configured at the office sendmail and fetchmail. Most of
> my mails come in perfectly. But mails from the list and a couple of mails
> fowarded from my mail.com account come to the postmaster instead of my
> mail-id at the office. The message source from one of these mails is given
> below. Can anyone help me out with this?
The attached mail says that sendmail at localhost received the mail for
postmaster. Now, why did fetchmail deliver the mail to postmaster is
your problem.
Let us take a tour of the headers.
> Received: from localhost (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) by
> ho.csasia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02342 for
> <postmaster@localhost>; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:12:19 +0530
Fetchmail delivers the mail here to sendmail on localhost; the mail is
meant for postmaster.
> Received: from www.csasia.com by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for
> postmaster@localhost (multi-drop); Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:12:19 +0530 (IST)
Fetchmail retrives mail from your POP3 server, www.csasia.com - the mail
is meant for postmaster@localhost. It also says that postmaster@localhost
is a multidrop mailbox.
Are you running fetchmail as postmaster?
> Received: (from bin@localhost) by ngenie.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA21391 for
> mail-cs; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:01:16 -0800
> Received: from www.aunet.org (aunet.org [216.103.113.202]) by ngenie.com
> (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21064 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 30 Jan 2000
> 21:00:53 -0800
The mail reaches your mailbox - csasia.com is your MX host and that is
where your mails are stored, in the mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any local name
So, now we have traced the problem. Fetchmail on your
desktop PC is running in multidrop mode, and it cannot resolve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to any address on the local
machine.
>From the fetchmail man page:
<SNIP>
begin to see this when a message comes in that is
addressed only to a mailing list you do not have declared
as a local name. Each such message will feature an `X-
Fetchmail-Warning' header which is generated because
fetchmail cannot find a valid local name in the recipient
addresses. Such messages default (as was described above)
to being sent to the local user running fetchmail, but the
program has no way to know that that's actually the right
thing.
<SNIP>
If you absolutely must use multidrop for this purpose,
make sure your mailserver writes an envelope-address
header that fetchmail can see. Otherwise you will lose
mail and it will come back to haunt you.
Solutions:
1. If you absolutely want to run fetchmail as multidrop, on your POP server,
put a .procmail entry for yourself:
Edit ~/.procmailrc, and then put the following recipe in it:
:0:
* (^TO|^Old-To.*|^Reply-To:.*)linux-india-digest
| formail -I "X-Envelop-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> /var/spool/mail/yourname
2. Or, disable multidrops locally. Use separate fetchmailrcs for different
people on the local machine.
Read the fetchmail man page completely for more details.
Binand
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