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

[Rob MacGregor]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:06:52 -0500 (EST), David C Niemi
<niemi@tuxers.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes, you have it right.  It is not just a matter of PostFix rejecting the
> mail; I could configure PostFix differently, but only at the expense of
> letting in vast quantities of spam.  So I really want to be able to
> distinguish this email by having it use a proper hostname on the HELO
> line.  I get the impression that Fetchmail doesn't let you control what it
> says on the HELO line, though I couldn't quite find it in the
> documentation.

Try setting smtphost.  I'm guessing that fetchmail does a rDNS on the
IP of the outbound interface.  Also worth checking that "hostname"
does return something other than "localhost" or
"localhost.localdomain".

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