fetchmail

[Brian Somers]

> David Richards wrote:
> > 
> > hey
> >         when i run fetchmail to get my mail, i get the error "senders domain
> > must resolv"
> > i am not sure if this to do with sendmail or fetchmail. if anyone had this
> > problem,please could u tell how to fix it
> 
> This is an anti-spam feature of sendmail which can be turned off using:
> 
>     FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')
> 
> see /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README for more info. (I wouldn't use
> this feature if your sendmail accepts mail from the real world).

Also, if you want to accept all mail (for an internal server) you can 
add this to your .mc file:

SLocal_check_mail
R$*	$#OK	Everything's ok - I can't necessarily resolve !

Of course this is probably somewhat more hackish than Richard's 
suggestion.
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