--- abhijeet abhijeetmore@rolta.net wrote:
i telnetted the port 25 on localhost......andtried to mail a message to my login....that's "abhije" now,i understand that the sendmail daemon identifies me as abhije@localhost(when i telnet the port 25)-- i get "IDENT:abhije@localhost.localdomain" as part of the response to HELO. when i say...... MAIL FROM:someone@some.other.domain ....it responds that the sender's address should resolve.....what does that mean??? i thought because it sends mail ......it should accept all sender addresses!!! At the same time.....if i say MAIL FROM:some_other_login_on_my_linuxbox@localhost the mail is sent....even if "some_other_login_on_my_linuxbox" knows nothing about it!!! my argument is that if it knows that i am abhije@localhost...and hence does not accept someone@some.other.domain....how does it accept mail from some_other_login???
The IDENT daemon identifies your domain, but not your login to sendmail, which finds that the two domains do not match. Stop the IDENT daemon and try.
2.> Also is there some other mail client that has the address book facility???....i just need a break from pine.....
AFAIK, Mutt has the address book facility.
3.>I also have a yahoo inbox.....but the yahoo server doesn't flush the mail when polled!!!! could somebody explain that???? (yes..i have registered for pop3 access)
Fetchmail does not flush the remote servers messages if invoked with -k,--keep option or if your .fetchmailrc contains the 'keep' option. Also, messages are not flushed if fetchmail terminates abruptly(I'm not sure of this tho') You can also try using the -K, --nokeep or -F, --flush
command line options. Check the man page for more details.
Chrisil
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