Probem with mailscanner + fetchmail + mailwatch

[Drew Marshall]

On 19 Aug 2008, at 11:51, Fabio Silva wrote:

> Hello all, i have a server that gets email from another server with  
> fetchmail... no problem.. its working fine... and... i have  
> mailscanner to scan the mails for virus and spam anddd.. extensions  
> attachments... and.. the mailwatch to see the email traffic and  
> statistics from web..
>
> I have done this steps form mailwatch.. http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=mailwatch:faq#why_are_messages_quarantined_again_when_i_release_them_in_mailwatch
>
> But... im using fetchmail.. and when i use fetchmail.. all mail is  
> delivered to postfix from IP Mail Launder has detected a possible  
> fraud attempt from "127.0.0.1" claiming to be 127.0.0.1 ... and...  
> to solve the above problem i have all mail classified as Whitelist...
>
> Does anybody have any clue about how to solve it??

Get Fetchmail to deliver to the external IP of your server and not to  
the loopback interface.

You can do this by specifying smtphost in your fetchmailrc file.

Drew
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