also sprach Corey Halpin <crhalpin@students.wisc.edu> [2002.04.01.0724 +0200]:
> It seems that the latest postfix packages default to rejecting mail claiming
> to be from localhost.
> I understand that this makes sense for spam prevention.
> However, it does unpleasant things if you happen to use fetchmail.
> I lost several hours of email because I didn't notice it was doing this, and
> I probably spammed a few mailing lists with idiotic bounce messages in the
> process.
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
use the smtphost parameter of fetchmail to set your actual hostname to
be the recipient of fetchmail-forwarded mail, not localhost. localhost
is not really a FQDN and SMTP works with FQDN's!
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-- christa mcauliffe
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