Fetchmail and MailScanner

[Alex Broens]

On 8/20/2008 9:27 AM, Ismail OZATAY wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using fetchmail as a pop connector. It downloads a lot of pop3 
> inbox from some isps and it works properly. Today i installed postfix 
> and mailscanner for filtering virus and spam mails on the same server 
> but there is something wrong with mail headers. Because mail header says 
> that mail coming from localhost 127.0.0.1 which is already whitelisted. 
> So every incoming mail is tagged as clean. How can i fix this problem ? 
> Can i send incoming mails to smtp with the original header?

tell fetchmail to use the NIC's IP as SMTP and not 127.0.0.1

depending how you call it

/usr/bin/fetchmail -S 192.168.1.1

that should solve your problem

fetchmail docs show this quite clearly.

h2h

Alex