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Re: exim and bad Sender: header



On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 08:09:41PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages:
> > > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@kira.peak.org> : colon expected after route
> > > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <carlj> : sender address must contain a domain
> > > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from kira.peak.org
> > 
> > I had a similar problem with messages bounced from non-existent
> > accounts. The automatic reply from the server is from <>, I guess to
> > prevent loops. Upgrading to fetchmail in slink (Version: 4.6.4-1) solved
> > my problem.
> 
> I just installed it, so hopefully it will fix my problem also.  Thanks
> for the response.
>

For reference: I was able to get a download to work by adding 

sender_unqualified_hosts = my.domain.com

to exim.conf.

miket


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