Re: Yow, Madduck!
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:11:23PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:42:28PM -0500, dman wrote:
> > Clearly you are not using your ISPs system as a smarthost, but have
> > setup exim to deliver directly to the remote system. What you need to
>
> Aha, correct. I think I'd like to use my isp as a smarthost.
> However, I have messed with my exim configuration and now I'm
> afraid to change it.
>
> > the reverse lookup will do that). Assuming your ISP hasn't been RBLed
>
> I don't _think_ my ISP has been RBL'd and I suppose my name would
> be worse than mud if it got that way because of me. So I guess
> I'd better think about fixing my exim.conf. Here goes.
>
> Expect questions.
Well, I had two drivers in the ROUTERS section, and smarthost
was second with a route_list whose "match-this-pattern" was
*. I moved it above lookuphost and it seems to work. Let's
see if it keeps working and doesn't break anything else (not
that I think exim tends to break, but I tend to break things
when I mess with them).
I had put it after lookuphost because I misunderstood the part
in the exim manual that said "A router like this should be
the last one in the configuration file, since it will route any
domain whatsoever".
Oops.
So that's the first part fixed: now I'm using my isp
as a smarthost (and the isp even seems to accept it! Great!)
The next part is to try to make the message come from something
that can be resolved. Here are the Received headers from my
email to myself (I sent it to an external mail re-director).
>From bjb@achilles.net Thu Jan 10 23:31:55 2002
Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] (bjb)
by seal with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
id 16OtM4-0004Rn-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:31:48 -0500
Delivered-To: bjb@achilles.net
Received: from pop1.achilles.net
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.3.3)
for bjb@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:31:48 -0500 (EST)
Received: (qmail 21575 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 04:30:36 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO machine.remailer.address) (206.99.235.25)
by samaria.achilles.net with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 04:30:36 -0000
Received: from web30.achilles.net (web30.achilles.net [209.151.0.6])
by machine.remailer.address (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA09994
for <me@remailer.address>; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:31:03 -0500
Received: from seal (mail@port-15.ottawa4.achilles.net [209.151.2.114])
by web30.achilles.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21655
for <me@remailer.address>; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:17:20 -0500
Received: from bjb by seal with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
id 16OtJ9-0004QT-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:28:47 -0500
So machine.remailer.address thinks it is getting the message from
web30.achilles.net which can be resolved: should this be sufficient?
Or is the next Received header (Received: from unknown...) trying
to tell me something about my exim.conf?
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