Re: [fetchmail-users] Simple fetch and forward

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 7/24/06, John <fet...@je...> wrote:
> Fetchmail 6.3.4

That avoids the usual "upgrade to the latest version" chant :-)

> >2) Contents of .fetchmailrc
<---SNIP--->
> I was previously trying:
>
> poll mail.ispmailserver.net protocol pop3
>     aka forwarder1.com
>     envelope Received

(This is almost certainly your problem)

>     localdomains domain1.com domain2.com domain3.com
>     user my-username there pass my-password to * here

That's pretty close to what I've got, and it works for me.

I suspect the problem relates to the overloading of the Received
header.  Does your ISP use a Delivered-to or Envelope-to header?

> fetchmail: line rejected, four.mx.forwarder1.com is not an alias of the
> mailserver

Try the options below and, if it still fails, provide the output of
"fetchmail -v -v -v" for a BCC email.  That email's headers would help
too.

> Fetchmail seems to want to change headers and this is confusing things. If I
> can just get it to pass stuff through verbatim then I think it'll be ok.

You probably want to add the options to "set invisible" and "no rewrite".

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