[Gllug] More fetchmail/sendmail questions

[Xander D Harkness]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>Thanks for all the help yesterday in getting the sendmail/mail relaying
>problem sorted out. But as a result of that I got brave and tried to
>fully unicise my email set up here.
>
>I am now using sendmail to relay my outgoing mail to Homechoice's smtp
>server and that seems to work fine (though I get this header on mail I
>have sent to myself eg to this list --- X-Authentication-Warning:
>landslide.localdomain: Adrian set sender to Adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
>using -f --- not sure if Demon's POP3 is adding that or Homechoice's
>smtp or my sendmail).
>
>But I cannot get the other half (ie fetchmail) to work.
>
>I can successfully pull down mail from Demon's POP3 server and forward
>that to root, but I cannot send anything to "Adrian" (my log in name on
>this box). Indeed I cannot even log in as root and send Adrian a piece
>of mail. Is there a simple way of overcoming this? 
>
>Once again, I have googled, but I find much of the stuff on the web
>about sendmail and related items pretty incomprehensible - somebody was
>able to give me a pointer here to fix a problem in an hour which 2 days
>of searching had not fixed!
>
>TIA
>
>Adrian
>
>
>
>  
>
Can you throw in your fetchmail config (normally only one line) minus 
the passwords ;-)

Kind regards
Xander


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