[ILUG] email path - localhost.localdomain ?

[Declan Grady]

Hi folks,
I'm not sure if this is a problem or not !

I sent myself an email, to check the headers (I had some probs
with not having localhost defined in my 'local-host-names' file)
and I get these headers... (see below)

I'm using fetchmail to poll the mail.nuvotem.com box.
I'm using some procmail rules to sort the incoming mail into
separate mailboxes.

I'm surprised to see the path being:

localhost -> declan
declan -> declan
declan -> mail
mail -> declan (pop3)

Is this right, or have I too many steps ?

I have my sendmail (8.12.5) configured as a 'nullclient'.

Should I somehow bypass the sendmail n my local box, and tell mutt
 to pop the mail from 'mail.nuvotem.com' and smtp the mail
 to 'mail.nuvotem.com' ?

<headers for reference>

Received: from mail.nuvotem.com [192.168.0.101]
        by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.5.0)
        for declan at localhost (single-drop); Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:59:40 +0100
+(IST)
Received: from declan.nuvotem.com (IDENT:root at declan [192.168.0.100])
        by mail.nuvotem.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BDsIqx003933
        for <declan at nuvotem.com>; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:54:18 +0100
Received: from declan.nuvotem.com (IDENT:declan at localhost.localdomain
+[127.0.0.1])
        by declan.nuvotem.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6BDwZ7a005414
        for <declan at nuvotem.com>; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:58:36 +0100
Received: (from declan at localhost)
        by declan.nuvotem.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6BDwZoA005413
        for declan at nuvotem.com; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:58:35 +0100

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Declan Grady
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