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From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
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Subject: Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist
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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 ]