[plug] fetchmail and postfix

[Christian]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:21:02PM +0800, russ wrote:
 
> Does this mean that each user will need an account on the mail server?

Of course!  How else did you plan on doing it? (Assuming "the mail
server" is your 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! :)

Ok, so the mail then gets delivered by fetchmail+postfix to the account
of the correct user when you run fetchmail.  You'll need to get the
fetchmail configuration file right so that fetchmail knows which goes to
which.

 
> 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

Ok, it looks like you're way off track here.  Firstly, there are two
mail servers, right?  The world-visible server (your ISP's) which just
knows that anything sent to a given domain goes to a particular mailbox.
This is really easy to configure under Postfix but, if I'm understanding
things right, this isn't your problem -- just make sure your ISP has
configured it right.  Now, is bammbamm your ISPs server?  If so, they
haven't configured things yet.  If it's your server then it looks like
something is going amiss with fetchmail although it's a bit hard to tell
without some details.  If I'm totally off-track with what's happening
(and supposed to be happening) here then perhaps you could more fully
describe the situation...

Regards,

Christian.