Hi, Hmm, I think we need a smail expert here. (I run sendmail, and have never run anything else) I also think that that (null) should have been your hostname, or your fully qualified domain name, and for some reason it is not set. Have you set up /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf? What do you get from hostname and hostname -f?
manoj __> hostname tiamat __> hostname -f tiamat.datasync.com __> fetchmail -a -v [...] fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2487 octets reading message 1 of 6 (2487 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 tiamat.datasync.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.7/Debian/GNU; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 01:30:24 -0500 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO datasync.com fetchmail: SMTP< 250-tiamat.datasync.com Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [205.216.83.252], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP< 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2487 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<srivasta> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <srivasta>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself #****************** fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 BAA03582 Message accepted for delivery -- This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl? Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff, that would be more challenging... --Larry Wall Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .