Hi,
This is probably not what fetchmail was designed for, but I'm hoping I can
get it to work anyway. Apologies in advance for the wordy message, I felt
that more detail was better the less detail. :-)
My ISP will forward any mail to x(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca (for
any x) to my
personal account (wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca). The messages arrive in my
wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca mailbox, but the "To:" line is unchanged (it
remains
x(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca).
I've created several accounts on my machine to handle mail that goes to
these "phantom" accounts, and I want fetchmail to forward them correctly.
My fetchmailrc file is:
<.fetchmailrc>
set no bouncemail
set invisible
poll mail.direct.ca
protocol pop3
no dns
no envelope
user wrichard with password "*****" to
announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca = announce
"wrichard" = "wade"
</.fetchmailrc>
I had hoped that fetchmail would take any messages addressed to
"announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca", and send them to the local
"announce"
account. This isn't happening.
When I send mail to the "announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca"
account and run
fetchmail to retrieve it, this is the fetchmail -v -v output:
<output>
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying mail.direct.ca (protocol POP3) at Fri 04 Jan 2002
04:31:46 PM PST: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 ready
<923c00009445363c(_at_)cheddar>.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Invalid command, try one of: USER name, PASS string, QUIT
fetchmail: Invalid command, try one of: USER name, PASS string, QUIT
fetchmail: POP3> USER wrichard
fetchmail: POP3< +OK wrichard selected
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Congratulations!
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1238
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for wrichard at mail.direct.ca (1238 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (1238 octets)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 1238
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1238 octets
reading message wrichard(_at_)mail(_dot_)direct(_dot_)ca:1 of 1 (1238 octets)
About to rewrite To: announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca
Rewritten version is To: announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca
About to rewrite From: Wade Richards <wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca>
Rewritten version is From: Wade Richards <wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca>
fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to wade
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 coffee.dyndns.org ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Fri, 04 Jan 2002
16:32:26 -0800
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO mail.direct.ca
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-coffee.dyndns.org Hello wade at localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca> SIZE=1238
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca> is syntactically correct
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<wade(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <wade(_at_)localhost> is syntactically correct
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#*fetchmail: message wrichard(_at_)mail(_dot_)direct(_dot_)ca:1 was not the
expected length (1195 actual != 1238 expected)
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=16Mel8-0007QJ-00
flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 1 deleted
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Was it as good for you, as it was for me? (clean as a
baby)
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying mail.direct.ca (protocol POP3) at Fri 04 Jan 2002
04:32:26 PM PST: poll completed
fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 coffee.dyndns.org closing connection
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
</output>
As you can see, fetchmail didn't think any of the addresses matched,
and it defaulted to sending the message to the account running fetchmail
(me). The received message is:
<received message>
Return-path: <wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca>
Envelope-to: wade(_at_)localhost
Delivery-date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:32:36 -0800
Received: from localhost
([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.direct.ca ident=wade)
by coffee.dyndns.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
id 16Mel8-0007QJ-00
for <wade(_at_)localhost>; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:32:26 -0800
Received: by cheddar (mbox wrichard)
(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Jan 4 16:15:20 2002)
X-from_: wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca Fri Jan 04 16:31:24 2002
Received: from continuity.intergate.ca ([207.34.179.21])
by rabacal.direct.ca with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7)
id 16Mek6-0005YA-00
for wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:31:22 -0800
Received: from rabacal.direct.ca (rabacal.direct.ca [199.60.229.8])
by continuity.intergate.ca (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g050Wq059066
for <announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca>; Fri, 4 Jan 2002
16:32:52 -0800 (PST)
(envelope-from wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca)
Received: from a2a00453.direct.bconnected.net ([209.53.56.222]
helo=coffee.dyndns.org)
by rabacal.direct.ca with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7)
id 16Mek5-0005Xz-00
for announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca; Fri, 4 Jan 2002
16:31:21 -0800
Received: from wade by coffee.dyndns.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
id 16Meji-0007Q3-00
for <announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca>; Fri, 04 Jan 2002
16:30:58 -0800
Message-id: <E16Meji-0007Q3-00(_at_)coffee(_dot_)dyndns(_dot_)org>
X-fetchmail-warning: recipient address
announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca didn't match any local name
Subject: test
From: Wade Richards <wrichard(_at_)direct(_dot_)ca>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:30:58 -0800
To: announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca
test
</received message>
Note: I got roughly the same results without the "no envelope" line in my
fetchmailrc.
So, finally my questions:
1) I listed "announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca" in my
fetchmailrc, so how
come fetchmail didn't match it? Why the "X-fetchmail-warning: recipient
address announce(_at_)stpaulsanglican(_dot_)bc(_dot_)ca didn't match any local
name" line
2) How can I convince fetchmail to do what I want?
Thanks,
--- Wade