At 23:46 07/03/00, Niall wrote:
>Tried to set up fetchmail, kept getting Sender domain must resolve must
>resolve errors. Surfed a little, got the impression that it's sendmail
>anti-spam related, re-ran Yast on the box and selected probably a more
>appropriate sendmail setup and things seemed to be fine i.e. I was
>fetching mail. However, I just tried to fetch mail again and I got the
>same errors. I suppose I don't need to mention that the sender domains do
>indeed resolve. During my surfing I saw honourable mention of
>install-sendmail as a solution (go Donncha !) but I don't want to use that
>just yet. My configuration did work, but now it doesn't. Why ? Ideas
>welcome :-)
uneducated guess - Fetchmail grabs the mail and then delivers it by smtp,
maybe sendmail is unhappy with the domain fetchmail is coming from ie. the
domain of your box at home,
Fergal
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