Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Payal Rathod schrieb am 2007-03-08:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:16:02AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> > > option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> > > example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> > > for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> > > qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> > > the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> > > Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> > > is set to receive mails for example.com
> > 
> > "It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
> >  However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
> > approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
> > headers.
> 
> It is not working. My local qmail's box is showing that when I am using 
> fetchmail to download mails from my remote server and injecting it in my 
> local SMTP, it is rewritting my recipent from pa...@ex... to 
> payal@localhost
> I am simple running fetchmail as,
> fetchmail -v -f /path/to/rcfile

Well, ...

> Any ideas on what is wrong? The rc file is just a simple 2 line test 
> file like below,
> poll domain with proto pop3, nodns :
> user payal with pass word to payal here ......

...you aren't forwarding to server Y :-)

There are several options to change behavior, not the least of which
one of the --smtp options.

-- 
Matthias 'qmail ought to be replaced by something fresh' Andree