fetchmail question

[Phil Schulz]

Bikrant wrote:
> Hi... I am trying to retrive mails using fetchmail and then deleiver it 
> locally using sendmail. I found that fetchmail adds the following header in 
> every messages that it retrives from the pop server.
> 
> Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
>         by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i5QIldIr030563
>         for <root at localhost>; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:32:39 +0545
> 

I'm not sure about this. But to me it doesn't look like this is added by 
  fetchmail but rather by sendmail. Below you find the header which was 
added to your original email by fetchmail on my box. Note the difference 
  in the 'from' part. Also I don't think that fetchmail 'speaks' (E)SMTP.

Phil.

> Received: from pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]
> 	by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0)
> 	for schulzp at localhost (single-drop); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:25:38 +0200 (CEST)