[ale] postfix and fetchmail

[Wandered Inn]

This is exactly the case.  Any suggestions from others??

Joe Steele wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a problem that might have been caused by
> fetchmail.  I could envision such a problem occurring if
> your .fetchmailrc file specified:
> 
> poll example.com
> user USERID at AUTHSERVER
> pass xyz
> 
> Fetchmail would retrieve the mail and pass it on to your
> local SMTP server, addressed to USERID at AUTHSERVER.
> 
> What might be missing is a 'to' statement (or various
> syntactic equivalents) in your rc file:
> 
> poll example.com
> user USERID at AUTHSERVER
> pass xyz
> to USERID
> 
> Now fetchmail passes the retrieved mail on to your local
> SMTP server, addressed to USERID, which is taken to be a
> local user.
> 
> This is just a guess.  Seeing your .fetchmailrc might help.
> 
> Of course, even if this was the cause, it doesn't help you
> with delivery of the mail which has already been deferred.
> (I have no experience with postfix.)
> 
> --Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Wandered Inn [SMTP:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
> Sent:   Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:06 AM
> To:     I. Herman
> Cc:     ALE
> Subject:        Re: [ale] postfix and fetchmail
> 
> "I. Herman" wrote:
> >
> > Hrm...I see.  Dunno..this is a new one to me.
> >
> > If it's going to the deferred, that means more than likely, it's reading it
> > as another destination, but copies it (or something like that).  If you set
> > the $mydomain, and set mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail (if not
> > already) then it should work.  If it don't...then you can try to cheat it by
> > making a symbolic link to the proper place....i.e:
> >
> > ln -s /var/spool/mail/UID /var/spool/postfix/UID and then change group/user
> > owner ships as needed.  I'm not sure if that'll work, as I haven't had to do
> > it.
> 
> It's not an issue of where it thinks the user mailbox is, it's the fact
> that postfix is not able to complete the processing of the mail,
> therefore it's dropped in the deferred directory.  What I need to be
> able to do is to make it understand that mail to
> USERID at AUTHSERVER.home.edu should go to USERID at tachyon.home.edu.

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