Re: Exim and fetchmail
On Wed, 05 May 1999 17:45:09 -0400, you wrote:
>I regard this as a bug in the installation procedure. Either
>fetchmail should deliver to "user" (without the "@localhost")
>or exim should be configured by default to accept such mail.
See bug #36837. The installation script of exim tells you that you
might want to add localhost to local_domains. A future release will
include this advice in the docs, too.
I am told that there are good reasons not to include localhosts in
local_domains by default.
As to delivering to "user":
|mh@torres:/mnt/main6/home/mh > telnet localhost 25
|Trying 127.0.0.1...
|Connected to localhost.
|Escape character is '^]'.
|220 torres.gf1.internal ESMTP Exim 2.10 #1 Thu, 6 May 1999 10:23:30 +0200
|helo torres
|250 torres.gf1.internal Hello mh at localhost [127.0.0.1]
|mail from: <mh@gf1.internal>
|250 <mh@gf1.internal> is syntactically correct
|rcpt to: <mh>
|501 <mh>: recipient address must contain a domain
|quit
|221 torres.gf1.internal closing connection
|Connection closed by foreign host.
|mh@torres:/mnt/main6/home/mh >
exim doesn't support this.
Fetchmail can also be configured to deliver to other domains than
@localhost using the smtpaddress directive.
Greetings
Marc
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