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

[LeRoy Weaver]

I understand his question and unfortunatly do not know the answer
either.  His mail is being rejected by his MTA "Postfix (or at least
mine is)" because the mta requires a Valid Helo Name.
Localhost.localdomain is not correct format.  Correct format would be
mail.domain.tld  What he needs to know is how to make Fetchmail say to
his local MTA  Hi I am "mail.domain.tld" so that it doesn't reject right
away.

LEW

-----Original Message-----
From: fetchmail-friends-admin@lists.ccil.org
[mailto:fetchmail-friends-admin@lists.ccil.org] On Behalf Of Rob
MacGregor
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:57 PM
To: fetchmail-friends@lists.ccil.org
Subject: Re: [fetchmail]Need to adjust HELO domain and Mail From: used
by fetchmail


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:10:29 -0500 (EST), David C Niemi
<niemi@tuxers.net> wrote:
> 
> This is v6.2.0 of Fetchmail on Fedora Core 1.  It is sending email TO 
> the right server, the problem is that it is telling Sendmail that 
> "localhost.localdomain" is the name of the host that is sending the 
> email (both on HELO and in the MAIL FROM:), which is not desirable.

Well, you managed (1) and (2)...

> > 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

You don't say why an ELHO of localhost.localdomain is a problem
(shouldn't be).  You may be able to change it by giving fetchmail an
explicit SMTP server name (ie the hostname of the machine that you're
running fetchmail on).

-- 
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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he 
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

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