On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:43:36AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp. As their name suggests,
Yes it does.
>From "man fetchmail"
As each message is retrieved, fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP
to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though
it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. fetchmail provides
the SMTP server with an envelope recipient derived in the manner
So, for example, in my fetchmailrc file:
poll verizon via pop.verizon.net port 995
user verizonusername is foo here
If I look at the headers of a message:
Received: from pop.verizon.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by spuddy.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p6LKB3b6010977
for <foo at localhost>; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:11:03 -0400
It's clear this was passed from fetchmail to the local SMTP server.
Of course you _can_ configure fetchmail to operate differently, but this
is its default behaviour.
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rgds
Stephen