yet another fetchmail howto

yet another fetchmail howto

Fetchmail “by default” hands off all retrieved e-mail to sendmail. You must
have sendmail configured to add the FQDN to your e-mail address by either
using a .forward file or an alias defined in /etc/aliases. If you must
continue using this alias, you will need to add the FQDN alias to your
exchange server mailbox settings so that it knows to accept e-mail for this
address.

If you want to disable fetchmail from handing off all “fetched” e-mail to
sendmail… use the “smtphost” directive in your .fetchmailrc file. This
will, in essence, open an SMTP connection straight to your Exchange server
for final delivery. Thus leaving the e-mail envelope (headers) intact.

The following is my .fetchmailrc file. The smtphost entry is my internal
Exchange server. The “set invisible” eliminates the fetchmail server from
adding itself to the e-mail headers as one of the “hops” this e-mail took on
its path to its final destination.

Steve Cowles

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set syslog
set postmaster “scowles”
set bouncemail
set properties “”
set invisible
poll mail.myisp.net with proto POP3 timeout 60
user “swcowles” there with password “my-password” is scowles here
smtphost ms-exchange.mydomain.com