Re: sendmail problems.....

[Mrs N P Salaria <nps@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to Manoj:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use fetchmail to pull our mails into our linux server( qpopper3.0b). =
> the problem is the mails are not channeled to the respective user acct =
> by sendmail when the mails are from some mailing lists ( all of it gets =
> sent to POST MASTER which is root ) ! But when a mail is sent with =
> explicit addressing [ user@xxxxxxxxxxxx ] to one of the users from =
> anywhere , we get it . i would like to know what changes i should make =
> in sendmail configuration .=20
> 
> Please help.
> Regards Manoj
> 
Hello,
You will have to modify the .fetchmailrc, for the envelope information
usually fetchmail assumes the envelope info as X-envelope-To , this
envelope info is stripped and the mail is delivered to the right person
but when it carries a mailing list address the X-envelope header carries
info of the mailing list address and the mail goes to root/postmaster
instead of to the right user whose userid is usually in the second
envelope 
In your case where you are using fetchmail in mullti drop mode , 
the isp usually adds one more envelope with the right username and 
a string prefix , is is this envelope that is to be used and use the 
string qvirtual to strip that part of the envelope inof and get the 
actual user id .
So please go through the headers of the mail that you have recd
and modigy .fetchmailrc with the envelope info 
in my .fetchmailrc I have added
envelope 1 "Delivered-To:"
qvirtual teraltd+teraltd.com-X-

so when fetchmail pulls mail , it looks for the second Delivered to envelope
and strips the string teraltd+teraltd.com-X- and this gives the right user
name in case of mailing lists 
Please read man fetchmail for full details 
Hope this helps 
nps 

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