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Re: exim filters and/or procmail



On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:33:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> BTW your mail is probably in smail's input queue. Try running smail -v -q

Thanks, that worked. I switched to smail temporarily and then back to exim.

I use fetchmail to get some of my mail. exim got the first few messages,
but now it refuses the next message in the queue. Is there a way to
get exim to accept this message? I didn't see this mentioned in the
fetchmail section of the FAQ. I'll switch back to smail again so I can
get clean out my POP queue.

Message with strange address that exim is rejecting:

  fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
  fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2249 octets
  reading message 1 of 72 (2249 bytes)
  fetchmail: SMTP< 220 freefall ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:19:38 -0500
  fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO freefall
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-freefall Hello freefall [192.168.1.7]
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
  fetchmail: forwarding to freefall
  fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<@pop.mindspring.com> SIZE=2249
  fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route
  fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route
  fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<lee> SIZE=2249
  fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <lee> : sender address must contain a domain
  fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <lee> : sender address must contain a domain
  fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
  fetchmail: POP3< This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
  fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mindspring.com
  fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
  fetchmail: SMTP< 221 freefall closing connection
  fetchmail: normal termination, status 10

After switching to smail and retreiving the message, I noticed that
was generated by exim at work. (I fixed the .forward file that was
causing this message.) Here is the message in the smail input queue
after retreiving it with smail:

!mail            
!8 8
!-oem
!-f
!@pop.mindspring.com
!-oMs
!freefall
!-oMa
!192.168.1.7
!-oMr
!esmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!<lee@freefall>

Status: R
Received: from pop.mindspring.com
        by freefall (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3)
        for <lee/freefall> (single-drop); Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:51:46 EST
Received: from tetsuo.mspring.net (tetsuo.mspring.net [207.69.231.11])
        by camel9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA11636
        for <lee.bradshaw@mindspring.com>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:23 -0500 (EST)
Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37])
        by tetsuo.mspring.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA01545
        for <lee@sectioniv.com>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:20 -0500 (EST)
Received: (qmail 11289 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8)
  by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 -0000
Received: from gemini (mail@ws1.alantro.com [208.201.237.194])
        by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA30871
        for <lee@sectioniv.com>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:21 -0800
X-envelope-info: <>
Received: from mail by gemini with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
        id 0zYL9o-0005ou-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800
X-Failed-Recipients: heegard@alantro.com
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@alantro.com>
To: lee@sectioniv.com
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: <E0zYL9o-0005ou-00@gemini>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:

  heegard@alantro.com:
    <heegard@alantro.com> - bad mode (100666) for /users/heegard/.forward
(userforward director):
    retry timeout exceeded

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <lee@sectionIV.com>
Received: from camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57] 
        by gemini with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
        id 0zYL9n-0005os-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:19 -0800
Received: from freefall (user-38lcpvd.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.103.237])
        by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05137
        for <heegard@alantro.com>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:12 -0500 (EST)
Received: from lee by freefall with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
        id 0zYLAc-0000kq-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:17:10 -0500
To: heegard@alantro.com


On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:53:08AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> # Exim filter
> if error_message then finish endif
> 
> if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user or
>    $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-changes 
> then 
>    save /home/servis/Mail/debian 
> endif
> 
> if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel 
> then 
>    save /home/servis/Mail/debian-devel 
> endif

Thanks, that's a good starting point. I'll try it when I get exim working
again.

-- 
Lee Bradshaw                 lee@sectionIV.com (preferred)
Alantro Communications       lee@alantro.com


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