[plug] fetchmail and postfix

[russ]

Christian wrote:
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> First question: what is fetchmail doing with the mail?  It should be
> delivering it to the postfix mail server on the host from which it was
> run.  Check that it is doing this by looking in the logs.  Now you say
> that you want the mail to go to the "various users on the local
> network".  What does this mean?  Most of the time you want the email to
> just be delivered to the mail server and the users pick up their mail
> from this server via IMAP or POP. 

Does this mean that each user will need an account on the mail server?


> Therefore the machine running postfix
> and fetchmail should be the mail server (and should also be running POP3
> and/or IMAP4 daemons).  

That's what I'm trying.  Not very successfully! :)

> If you're doing it he first way then the problem is most likely with
> fetchmail.  Make sure that you have configured fetchmail to know where
> to deliver mail to on the local machine (i.e. which user is which).
> This usually isn't too hard but the fetchmail configuration files and
> documentation tend to make the process as confusing as possible (IMHO).
> 
> If you're still having problems then you'll probably need to provide
> more detail on what's going wrong.


Here's what I'm now getting back when I send mail to an account:


  This is the Postfix program at host bammbamm.embedit.com.au.

  I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
  below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

  For further assistance, please contact <postmaster at embedit.com.au>

  If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
  delete your own text from the message returned below.

                        The Postfix program

  <embedit at localhost.embedit.com.au>: Name service error for domain
      localhost.embedit.com.au: Host not found