> If you are collecting ALL the mail in the mail box on the ISP server > to go to a SINGLE mailbox on your local server then you can force > fetchmail to rewrite the new To: header sent to sendmail with the > --smtpname switch on the command line (or the relevant keyword in > the fetchmailconf file). This doesn't explain how 127.0.0.1 got in > the To: header but will stop it from happening again.
Yes, that seems a harmless step. If my outgoing lets lost because it has a messed up To: field, that would would seem to be a workaround. > The first question you need to answer is -- how did 127.0.0.1 get > into the "To:" header? Was it an addressing error on your part, or > did something rewrite it to that value? I'd suggest you check the > outbox of whatever program you used to send the message. If the "To: > 127.0.0.1" line appears in your original, then it was just a typo > and of no significance to your troubleshooting (that is, the reject > is correct). If the original has a different To: line, then post a > followup with the details -- what MUA, which system (hard disk) you > were using, and what the original To: line said. It may have been a typo, but obviously something more's going on, for I'm not getting back test messages sent to myself now at all. In fact, I probably have emacs set up for mail-self-blind. If so, the lack of BCC messages is really significant. Being a city-boy, I'm not too sure what an "outbox" is ;-). I run rmail, and if I'm not connected, it's got to save its outgoing messages in a queue somewhere, just as ~/RMAIL holds incoming. Perhaps it is smail that handles outgoing messages, and if so, it logs in /var/log/smail/logfile and has as its outgoing queue /var/spool/smail/input/* I'll compare /etc/sendmail.cf with what I've running right now (current machine is a working copy of RH7.3) to see the diff. Also will run rmail with debug option (-T). Another concern is my hostname. My ISP knows me (UID) as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but # hostname returns hartford-hwp.com. In my /etc/hosts I believe I have: 127.0.0.1 hartford-hwp.com localhost.localdomain localhost I'll recheck, but I'd like some assurance even this is correct. Do I need a [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias in /etc/hostds?. I'm also going to compare /etc/alias with what works on my current machine (RH7.3). Haines - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
