fetchmail question

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, 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 am running fetchmail as root user so it has modified the recepient to 
> root at localhost. Isn't there any way so that fetchmail retains the original 
> recepient ? I tried  -n and --invisible options but they didn't help.

Hi,

if you count all the RECEIVED: headers you will find that using the
--invisible option fetchmail suppresses the fetchmail added RECEIVED: header
... all the others are added by sendmail

Oliver

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