Subject: Re: newbie fetchmail problem
Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:51:18AM -0500
In reply to:Brian Servis
Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| *- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about "newbie fetchmail problem"
[snip]
>| > poll pop.styria.com proto pop3
>| > user johannes-tax pass mysecret is pox here
>| >
>| > what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me.
>| >
>|
>| This isn't a fetchmail problem. It is your MTA that does not recognized
>| the machine name 'localhost' as actually being your local machine and is
>| thus refusing to deliver the mail that fetchmail is feeding it over the
>| SMTP port. For exim the option is local_domains and is a colon separated
>| list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is
>| called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following:
>|
>| local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian
>|
>| This works for me, I don't know if it is all necessary but you do need
>| the localhost and actual machine name in there.
The line that Brian listed is found in /etc/exim.conf, and assumes you
are, in fact, using exim as your MTA. Exim is the default MTA for
Debian, i believe.
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