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Re: RCPT TO: header causes rejection.

From: Doug Laidlaw (laidlawshotkey.net.au)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 06:15:16 CST

Thanks for the reply. I must have somehow deleted it.

No, it isn't postfix. It is fetchmail. I was thinking that postfix has its
own sendmail, and a thread somewhere said to fix it in sendmail. That got me
in a mind fix that the answer was somewhere in postfix.

Doug

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:08 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I am using postfix + procmail. My config is almost completely standard.
>
> Postfix can connect to my ISP O.K., and finds an IMAP protocol, although I
> normally use POP, but when it tries to download a mail item, it sends RCPT
> TO: laidlawslocalhost, and the connection is refused. It then tries the
> next mail, with the same result, until all have been tried.
>
> I am told that this can be overcome with aliases, but perhaps I am too dumb
> to understand how.
>
> Doug L.

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