On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:51:05AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: | On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:42:08AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | > This is exim's response to fetchmail. You have exim's syntax checking | > turned on, so it will reject any incoming message which is | > syntactically not a valid email message. This is a good feature if | > your MTA receives mail directly from the internet because it blocks a | > fair amount of junk. | > ... | > Since you are using exim 3, make sure the variables | > 'headers_check_syntax' and 'headers_sender_verify' are set to false. | | Thanks dman, good guess. But I had the line | | # headers_check_syntax | | commented out in my exim.conf. Just to be sure, though, I did it your | way. I did not have a headers_sender_verify, so I added it. So I now | have: | | headers_check_syntax = false | headers_sender_verify = false | | I restarted both exim and fetchmail, but I still have a logjam. | However, based on your suggestion, I checked my /var/log/exim/mainlog | and found this (apparently once for each bad header): | | 2003-08-15 07:43:58 unqualified recipient rejected: | <epting> H=debian (localhost) [127.0.0.1] Ok, you fixed one problem and now you're on to another. (notice how exim is rejecting the message for a different reason?) | In my exim.conf I have: | | qualify_domain = localhost | # qualify_recipient = | local_domains = localhost:localhost | | which seems to be the right thing. Does anybody have any other | suggestions? I really don't remember these details any more because exim 3 is _so_ obsolete. (exim 4 has been "stable" for well over a year now) However, all the details on exim's operation are laid out in /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz which is also available at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec.html HTH, -D -- The nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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