fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

[Anton Shterenlikht]

	Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:48:45 -0700
	From: Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com>
	To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
	Subject: Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

	On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:40:47AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
	> I'm running sendmail, and using fetchmail to fetch
	> my mail from the university IMAP server.
	> 
	> I sometimes see fetchmail complain:
	> 
	> fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 <admin at system.mail>... Domain of sender address admin at system.mail does not exist
	> 
	> And this is doubled in /var/log/maillog:
	> 
	> sm-mta[14642]: r270BO3L014642: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<admin at system.mail>, relay=localhost [127.0.
	> 0.1], reject=553 5.1.8 <admin at system.mail>... Domain of sender address admin at system.mail does not exist
	> 
	> How do I set fetchmail and sendmail to fetch
	> such emails?

	You might want to try out the mail/fdm port instead of fetchmail.  I have
	found fetchmail to be obtuse and cantankerous; I stopped using it a long
	time ago.

No, I think fetchmail's great!
And Matthias already helped me sort it out.

Thanks for the advice anyway.

Anton