[fetchmail]Need to adjust HELO domain and Mail From: used by fetchmail

[Rob MacGregor]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:16:33 -0500 (EST), David C Niemi
<niemi@tuxers.net> wrote:
> 
> I am using fetchmail to retrieve email from mailbox subfolders used to
> report spam and ham.  At some point while fetchmail is fetching email it
> decides to send email somewhere (where, I'm not sure) and it is using just
> "localhost" for its HELO and From domain.  Can I get it to use a FQDN
> instead so I can control what happens?

Fetchmail *always* passes the email to the defined SMTP server,
localhost by default.  Well, unless you've told it to deliver directly
to the LDA (such as procmail), but it'll never use a random SMTP
server.

Check your local SMTP server's logs.  You may also find the output of
"fetchmail -v -v" useful.

If you still have problems, please let the list know:

1) Version of fetchmail
2) Operating system (ie RedHat 8.0)
3) Contents of .fetchmailrc (hide passwords)
4) Output of "fetchmail -v -v"
5) SMTP server logs for that run

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