have i stumped you?
shall i take the silence of the list to mean that i've stumped even the qmail gurus? or have i missed something in the faq that will solve my whole problem? In case the problem is the former, let me provide you with more information. my address "@earthling.net" is a service provided by iname.com so you never have to change your email address. it bounces your email from their server to an email account you designate, in my case "@geocities.com". I then send fetchmail out to retrieve my mail from the geocities account. fetchmail then deposits the mail on qmail using the mda option of sendmail emulation. when fetchmail gets it, it logs in /var/log/maillog who the mail is from and where it's going to. fetchmail is logging the correct From: and To:. qmail however is rewriting the headers to look like this: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 16 01:05:44 1999 -0400 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recieved: (qmail 16625 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Apr 1999 01:05:43 - Date 16 Apr 1999 01:05:43 -000 [...] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient list not shown: ; Status:RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1 by geocities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA18891 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:00:50 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail.geocities.com by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.0.0) for sungo@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mercury.upn.net by smv18.iname.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1SMV) with ESTMP id UAA16582 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sebastian.slashdot.org by mercury.upn.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 728CF2C5A4 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:59:49 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For sungo Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:59:49 -0700 (PDT) any thoughts anyone? (sorry for the long spamish email) hope this info helps. -- Foco Theory | It is not necessary to wait until revolutionary| conditions have developed, since a dedicated |Matt Cashner small group can ignite a revolution, thus creating | [EMAIL PROTECTED] both the uprising and the conditions which make| it possible. | --
Re: have i stumped you?
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shall i take the silence of the list to mean that i've stumped even the qmail gurus? fetchmail then deposits the mail on qmail using the mda option of sendmail emulation. The following is an indication of improper or missing headers in the mail that fetchmail sends using /usr/lib/sendmail. Replace /usr/lib/sendmail with a program that simply records its arguments and stdin, then examine that information. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient list not shown: ; -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
re: Re: have i stumped you?
You wrote: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shall i take the silence of the list to mean that i've stumped even the qmail gurus? fetchmail then deposits the mail on qmail using the mda option of sendmail emulation. The following is an indication of improper or missing headers in the mail that fetchmail sends using /usr/lib/sendmail. Replace /usr/lib/sendmail with a program that simply records its arguments and stdin, then examine that information. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient list not shown: ; ok. so how do i go about doing this? i'm rather new to smtp, qmail, and the whole ball of wax. thanx again. -- Foco Theory | It is not necessary to wait until revolutionary| conditions have developed, since a dedicated |Matt Cashner small group can ignite a revolution, thus creating | [EMAIL PROTECTED] both the uprising and the conditions which make| it possible. | --
Re: Re: have i stumped you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Sam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "My personal recommendation is to scrap fetchmail. [...] Write your own POP3 client, and be done with it." Nice in theory. Problem is this: sungo only knows Fortran at this point (free credit hours) though I'm going to teach myself Perl this summer. Is there anyway I can get a temporary version of what you suggested to hold me over until I know enough Perl to write my own? searched freshmeat and linuxapps to find only bastardized versions of fetchmail and scripts to tell me if i *have* mail, not to go get the mail itself and inject it straight in the mailbox. any thoughts? http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/getpop3.README.html is my bare-bones POP3 client. This is the first thing I ever wrote after liberating my PC by loading Linux. -- Sam
