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Re: [fetchmail] Multidrop badness

2003-11-12 02:36:08
OK - thanks to the help of some people on the list and a little sleep so I could spot my typos and stoooooopidness, it now works as it should.

fetchmailrc file looks like this:

[pmac-g5:~] geoff% sudo cat /etc/mail/fetchmailrc
set daemon 120
poll pop3.demon.co.uk proto pop3
   aka demon.net
   aka mailstore
   no dns
localdomains pmac-g5.norton.co.uk birchwoode.demon.co.uk localhost:
user "birchwoode" pass "XXXXXXX" to * here
fetchall
[pmac-g5:~] geoff%

There are zillions of aliases and all sorts of things that I created for postfix whilst I was experimenting - I'll now have to remove them one by one until things stop working!! Then again, maybe I'll just leave it... ;-)

Thanks for the help.
Geoff.

On 9 Nov 2003, at 00:39, Geoff Saulnier wrote:

I should have mentioned the problem more explicitly:

All mail comes to pop3.demon.co.uk addressed to username(_at_)birchwoode(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk where username is the same username as the user on my local machine.

The problem is that whatever I pull in with fetchmail gets passed to postmaster on my local domain instead of to the user. Fetchmail complains in the log that it cannot match the address (eg: ali(_at_)birchwoode(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk) to any local user which is fair enough as my local domain is pmac-g5.norton.co.uk so the equivalent user here would be ali(_at_)pmac-g5(_dot_)norton(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk

Question is, in multidrop mode, using a "* here" statement (since there could be any number of users receiving email, and listing them all in a = b statements is not a reasonable solution), how the heck to I get fetchmail to translate birchwoode.demon.co.uk to pmac-g5.norton.co.uk ?????

Or is it postfix that I need to fix?  If so, how?

Geoff.

On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Geoff Saulnier wrote:

[SNIP]

pmac-g5:/etc/mail root# cat /etc/mail/fetchmailrc
set daemon 120
poll pop3.demon.co.uk proto pop3
   aka demon.net
   aka mailstore
#   no dns
localdomains pmac-g5.norton.co.uk localhost
user "birchwoode" pass "XXXXXX"
#   to birchwoode.demon.co.uk = pmac-g5.norton.co.uk * here
   to * here
#and wants smtpaddress pmac-g5.norton.co.uk
fetchall
#keep
pmac-g5:/etc/mail root#

[SNIP]
That should be enough info but, if you need anything else, please just shout!

Regards,
Geoff.


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