Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
Subject: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:19:11PM -0600
In reply to:Mike Acklin
Quoting Mike Acklin(htuttle@dallas.net):
>
> 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
>
1. I hope I am not out in left field, but have you configured Pine? I no
longer use it but recall having a simular problem until I did the
'Setup-Config' in Pine.
2. Do you have the line '127.0.0.1 localhost' in /etc/hosts?
3. Do you have export MAILUSER=your_name in .bash_profile?
HTH
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-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
_______________________________________________________
Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>
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