Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > NanoSoft is the (phony) domain that we use for our LAN.
> > For debugging purposes, I call fetchmail manually as root. The problem is
> > that the mail always lands in root's mailbox. Is there a way to convince
> > fetchmail to drop the mail to the appropriate box?
>
> Fetchmail doesn't drop mail into any box. It delivers the
> mail to your local machine using SMTP. That is, it sucks the mail from your
> provider using IMAP, POP or what have you and then it contacts Sendmail
> (or some other agent) running at port 25 on your local machine. It's that
> agent which determines where the mail goes.
Yes, but it does so based upon the `RCPT To: ...' SMTP command which
fetchmail gives it.
It's actually the ISP's MTA which has to be configured (to stuff the
envelope recipient address into an X-Envelope-To: header or similar),
so that fetchmail can determine the recipient address to pass to the
local MTA.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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