On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 05:05:28PM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote:
| Before recently playing with my exim configuration, the first few
| lines of a mail message used to be:
|
| From exim-users-admin@??? Fri Dec 21 14:53:27 2001
| Envelope-to: derek@othello
| Received: from casio.othello.dyn.ca ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost)
| by casio.othello.dyn.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian))
| id 16HVjT-0000R7-00
| for <derek@othello>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:53:27 -0500
In this case exim is obviously receiving the message via SMTP.
| Now, I get:
|
| From fetchmail@??? Mon Dec 24 10:34:53 2001
| Envelope-to: derek@othello
| Received: from fetchmail by casio.othello.dyn.ca with local (Exim 3.32
| #1 (Debian))
| id 16IX7r-0002WK-00
| for <derek@othello>; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:34:51 -0500
|
|
| "fetchmail " is the correct userid of the fetchmail process on my
| system (though it's not running on netcom.ca, that's understandable),
| but why is it suddenly using that as the sender, not the real sender?
It looks like fetchmail has popen()ed exim and is piping the message
to it.
Do you have an "mda=" specification in your .fetchmailrc?
-D
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