Re: fetchmail

[dmartin@clifton-labs.com (Dale E. Martin)]

Elmo Ivey <elmo@usxchange.net> writes:

> I installed Debain Linux 2.0 a couple weeks ago. I have the exim mail
> handler. I can send mail with no problem. I tried to use fetchmail to
> get my mail. I've tried several different setups for both exim
> (exim.conf) and fetchmail (.fetchmailrc) but I always get the following
> error measage.
> 
> elmo:~$ fetchmail -k -a
> 2 messages for elmo at usxchange.net (8231 octets).
> reading message 1 of 2 (4893 octets) .fetchmail: 
> SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `elmo@localhost'
> fetchmail: can't even send to elmo!
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from usxchange.net
> fetchmail: Query status=10
> 
> 	any suggestions?

Try adding "localhost" to your local domains in /etc/exim.conf:
local_domains = elmo.<whatever>:localhost

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