I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to answer (thanks god!): so fetchmail timeout and stop to fetch the mail ...
I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is forward the mail just to localhost!! Any idea on how to do that? graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .