Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
At 08:10 PM 3/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>If you're going to move from smail to anything else at the moment, I'd
>recommend exim over sendmail unless you're already really comfortable
>with sendmail. There's even been some noise recently about Debian
>switching from smail to exim as the default mailer.
>
>With respect to your fetchmail problems, holler again if exim doesn't
>fix the problem, and I'll see what I can suggest.
>
>--
>Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
>PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30
Rob,
Sounds like you have a handle on this. I am using exim and fetchmail. I
started to use smail, but advice from someone else on the list convenced me
to use exim. So that is installed and running. Now I can send mail with no
problem with Pine. But receiving mail is another story.
I get an error message from the POP3 server that the name is not
acceptable. It wants a domain name on it.
Here's the headers from a message I sent myself from debian to my other
system. (which I am in now).
Received: from htuttle (mail@max-fw-233.dallas.net [209.44.47.233])
by mail.dallas.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA17270
for <htuttle@dallas.net>; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:17:54 -0600 (CST)
Received: from htuttle [209.44.47.233] (root)
by htuttle with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1)
id 0yI0Pz-0000O6-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:21:15 -0600
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:21:14 -0600 (CST)
From: htuttle <root@brazil.dyn.ml.org>
X-Sender: root@htuttle
To: htuttle@dallas.net
Subject: Test
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980325182101.1492A-100000@htuttle>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Length: 7
Status: O
One of the guys on IRC said this was one of the FAQ's and had me place
"receiver_unqualified_net = 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" in my /etc/exim.conf file.
But I still got the same response from the pop server. I wished I could
save the messages I get but I don't know how to do that. I did see the
messages as I executed "fetchmail --verbose". I know that the name
"htuttle" is the problem. I think my server is looking for something like
"htuttle@dallas.net" or something else. BTW, I log in and it accepts my p/w
fine. It is just when it trys to get the mail, I keep getting error code 9.
Is there somewhere I can find a FAQ or Howto for exim or fetchmail. I have
tried the EXIM home page, but to no avail. I tried the Howto site but the
HOWTO Electronic mail is gone. and not maitained. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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