Re: Can not mail to myself
> > I can't send mail to armin@localhost (that's my login).
> > That's not good, because fetchmail likes to do so.
> > What must I do to bring this in order?
>
> Too little information. Try again, and list all your mail software,
> beside fetchmail. Do you run sendmail, exim, or some other package?
>
> Can you send mail to just armin (no @)?
> or armin@whatever-your-machine-name-is ?
> use the command "hostname" if you don't know your
> machine's name.
> If one of these other addresses work, change your .fetchmailrc
> to use that instead.
>
> You can get plenty of info about programs by using the "man" command.
> (i.e. "man fetchmail" for info on fetchmail and so on.)
I'm running slink with kernel 2.2.5.
I use exim. There is no other mail software installed.
I can send mail to armin and to armin@lebowski. lebowski is the hostname.
Sure, I've read the manual page of exim and fetchmail. But a manpage
is more a reference than an introduction for an newbie.
I've even looked into my ~/.fetchmailrc. The recipient was given as armin.
The error message was:
armin@lebowski:~ $ fetchmail
Enter password for wegner@ldv.uni-trier.de:
1 message for wegner at ldv.uni-trier.de (2454 octets).
reading message 1 of 1 (470 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `armin@localhost'
fetchmail: can't even send to armin!
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from ldv.uni-trier.de
fetchmail: Query status=10
I've configured exim with eximconf to local delivery and edited
~/.fetchmailrc by hand. I have added "is armin@lebowski".
fetchmail works now.
Nevertheless I tested to mail to armin@localhost. The following mail
has been returned:
From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 15 17:02:18 1999
Received: from mail by lebowski with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian))
id 10Xnek-00004o-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200
X-Failed-Recipients: armin@localhost
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@lebowski>
To: armin@lebowski
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: <E10Xnek-00004o-00@lebowski>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200
Status: RO
Content-Length: 701
Lines: 23
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:
armin@localhost:
unrouteable mail domain "localhost"
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: <armin@lebowski>
Received: from armin by lebowski with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian))
id 10Xnek-00004k-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200
To: armin@localhost
Subject: Test Nr. C
Message-ID: <19990415170218.C176@lebowski>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i
From: <armin@lebowski>
Test Nr. C
Why can't I mail to armin@localhost?
Armin
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