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Old 03-15-2004, 12:00 PM   #1
sebyte
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Fetchmail & Exim pop3 configuration


I've managed to get my pop3 email working using Fetchmail and
Exim3, with one or two workarounds. Firstly, I've given up
trying to configure things so that when I send a test email to
myself, it doesn't simply get routed directly to my spool file
by Exim, instead of being delivered to my pop3 mailhost, and
then collected from there by Fetchmail, passed to Exim and then
to my spoolfile. Is there a way of configuring Exim to do
that, i.e., for a domain to be reccognised as local only if it
is being passed a message by Fetchmail?

Secondly, although I've set myself as postmaster in my
/etc/fetchmailrc and `set bouncemail no', so that I should
receive emails fetchmail doesn't know what to do with, such emails
are being enveloped to `fetchmail@localhost'. This is correct
in as much as postmaster defaults to the calling user, (and I
have Fetchmail running in daemon mode), but I would have
expected `set postmaster <me>' to override that!

Thirdly, am I right in concluding Fetchmail makes no use of
/etc/aliases? Would setting Fetchmail to `no envelope' mean
Exim does more of the `what goes where' work and configure my
/etc/aliases file accordingly?

Finally, I seem to be able to set my /etc/mailname to anything
I like with it making no discernable difference. Which processes
use the /etc/mailname definition?

TIA,

sebyte
 
Old 03-17-2004, 09:29 PM   #2
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I can't offer any help on exim & fetchmail since I don't use any of them. But if you can't find any help and decide on alternative, you can try ssmtp and getmail . ssmtp doesn't run as daemon as exim, it only get executes when you want to send something, apt-cache show ssmtp -- If you use these 2 , I can offer more help
 
  


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