Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail in Singledrop-mode trying to send mail

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

On 1/25/07, Eddie <st...@at...> wrote:
>
> OK, I guess it was my misunderstanding of exactly how sendmail works.  :-(
>
> I'd assumed that fetchmail would direct all mail, regardless, to my inbox,
> which I now realise it is.

Fetchmail directs all email to your SMTP server, not your inbox (to be picky).

> What I didn't know, was that even though sendmail
> *is* trying to deliver it locally, it still validates the sender domain.  So,
> it was a validation that failed, not an attempt at sending that failed.

You can disable that check (see cf/README -
accept_unresolvable_domains), however given that almost all mail with
an unresolvable sender domain is spam, you're not likely to benefit
from it.

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