Good afternoon.
I downloaded fetchmail this morning on a SCO machine, intending to use it to
read emails from a test XMail server I've got set up elsewhere on my company's
premises. The two machines are connected to our local network and to the
Internet. Here's the catch: The domain my mail is on at the server is purely a
test domain; that is, no DNS server will ever find it. I'd like to be able to
tell fetchmail: "Go to this IP address and look for mail for this user, with
this password, at this domain".
I thought I might be able to do that by creating a .fetchmailrc file in my HOME
directory with a line like:
poll xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa aka fake.domain
<user options here>
even though the man page says aka is mainly used with multidrop mailboxes,
which this isn't -- but that didn't work. When I run fetchmail, it reads the
file but still says, "No mail for <user> at xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa." (Note that it's
not "No mail...at fake.domain". Note also that it's not *failing*.) Should
this be working? I'm sure there's a test message in "fake.domain" for this
user that it ought to be finding. Is fetchmail indeed checking all domains
specified and this is "merely" a communication or server issue? Or...am I
asking too much here?
Thanks for any help or suggestions,
Jason Barrett