Hi Ben,
thanx for the info. I tried both of these but it still doesn't want to
work. This time it returned an error message regarding the flags '-oem'
when fetchmail went to work. You are right in one sense though, it does
appear to need more specific instructions when fetchmail performs the
hand-off to exim. Maybe you or somebody else has some more ideas?
PS
After calling exim as 'mailq' in the mda specification of '.fetchmailrc' it
seemed to have grabbed the mail and forwarded it the address of
'uucp@???' -- of course, this address does not exist, but it garb the
mail. Very curious.
brian
> big boy wrote:
>
> > mda "'exim'"
>
> The `mda' option to fetchmail specifies the *complete* command to send
> messages to. Running `exim' like that, without any arguments, isn't
> valid. I suspect the double level of quoting doesn't help anyone,
> either. This is assuming nothing has changed since I last used it. Have
> you tried something like
>
> mda "/path/to/exim -oem -oi brian"
>
> using the appropriate path and replacing `brian' with your real username
> on your local machine? Another one, which the fetchmail manpage suggests,
> is:
>
> mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T"
>
> where %F is the sender and %T is the recipient. Personally I don't trust
> this. There is no standard way, to the best of my knowledge, to get the
> *real* envelope sender and recipient from a message received using POP3.
> I'm just glad my ISP delivers mail using SMTP.
>
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