Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.2.5-12
Severity: normal
When adding a Received: header to a message, Fetchmail puts "localhost"
instead of the name of the host Fetchmail is running on. This tells you
nothing about where the message has been received, which is the point of
the header, and is misleading and unhelpful. If every mail server did
this following email headers would be much harder.
For example:
Received: from pop3.demon.co.uk
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (multi-drop); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:14:08 ++0100
(BST)
Fetchmail is running on rilynn.demon.co.uk, and should say so.
There is a similar problem with delivery status messages produced by
Fetchmail. The messages contain the line:
Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost
which is fairly pointless and unhelpful, especially as exim gives the
name of the host thinks it is running on during the SMTP session:
reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 1 (1683 octets)
fetchmail: passed through [EMAIL PROTECTED] matching rilynn.demon.co.uk
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 rilynn.demon.co.uk ESMTP Exim 4.50 Thu, 30 Jun 2005
23:36:27 +0100
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-rilynn.demon.co.uk Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmailrc:
set daemon 60
set postmaster "postmaster"
poll pop3.demon.co.uk aka mailstore protocol SDPS interface eth0/192.168.0.1
options localdomains rilynn.demon.co.uk no dns no envelope
user rilynn password foo to *
options fetchall no rewrite warnings 86400
Thanks,
Roger
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
-- no debconf information
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