Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?
Hi,
(Background: my home computer is connected via ppp to my isp; my home pc
is debian.borco.net; the isp server is mail.mailbox.ro; i use fetchmail
to get the mails after I connect to the isp via ppp. For reading and
writing I use Netscape Mail, which reads from the local machine and
sends mails to a queue. The MTA is exim, which is set to re-write the
headers (set the From and Sender to my e-mail from my isp). The machine
is hamm.)
Yesterday I wanted to write to the KDE maintainer. His address was
aj@debian.org. The mail returned because "unknown user". My problem is
not this but that the fetchmail didn't want to download the returned
message.
Here are the information I gathered:
At the prompt:
bash-2.01$ fetchmail
fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro.
reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501
<@mail.mailbox.ro
> : colon expected after route
fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <ionut> : sender address must contain a
domain
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.mailbox.ro
bash-2.01$
In /var/log/exim
1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected: <ionut> H=localhost
(debian.borco.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut)
In /var/log/rejectlog
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected: <ionut> H=localhost
(debian.bor
co.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The /home/ionut/.fetchmailrc:
defaults
fetchall
poll mail.mailbox.ro with proto pop3:
user borco there has password XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and is ionut here
The header of the mail that produced this:
Return-Path: <>
Received: from master.debian.org (qmailr@debian.novare.net
[205.229.104.5])
by box.mailbox.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA31758 for
<borco@mailbox.ro>; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:47:23 +0300
Message-ID: <199805201347.QAA31758@box.mailbox.ro>
Received: (qmail 32730 invoked for bounce); 20 May 1998 13:39:03 -0000
Date: 20 May 1998 13:39:03 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@master.debian.org
To: borco@mailbox.ro
Subject: failure notice
Status: RO
X-Mozilla-Status: 8001
I was able to download the mail by changing the settings of the Netscape
Mail (to point directly to my isp, not to the local machine).
So, is this because a security setting or what ? How do I avoid this in
future ? Or should I let it as it is ?
TIA,
Ionutz
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