Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:48:45 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist Message-ID: <20130307204845.GA2466@glaze.hydra> In-Reply-To: <201303070940.r279elHS001082@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201303070940.r279elHS001082@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:40:47AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm running sendmail, and using fetchmail to fetch > my mail from the university IMAP server. > > I sometimes see fetchmail complain: > > fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 <admin@system.mail>... Domain of sender address admin@system.mail does not exist > > And this is doubled in /var/log/maillog: > > sm-mta[14642]: r270BO3L014642: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<admin@system.mail>, relay=localhost [127.0. > 0.1], reject=553 5.1.8 <admin@system.mail>... Domain of sender address admin@system.mail does not exist > > How do I set fetchmail and sendmail to fetch > such emails? You might want to try out the mail/fdm port instead of fetchmail. I have found fetchmail to be obtuse and cantankerous; I stopped using it a long time ago. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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