Re: Fetchmail problems
On Sat, 22 May 1999, XRDLAB wrote:
> Hi,
> I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old
> configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new
> system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the
> mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I
> do a fetchmail, I get the following error message:
>
> mysxrd-in-haralu:~$ fetchmail
> 1 message for mysxrd at giasbg01.vsnl.net.in (1241 octets).
> reading message 1 of 1 (1241 octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't
> like recipient address `mysxrd@localhost'
> fetchmail: can't even send to mysxrd!
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> giasbg01.vsnl.net.in
> fetchmail: Query status=10
>
> With this I am not able to download the messages from the isp to my
> machine. Can anyone suggest some remedy for this?
This occurs because of a minor change in the initial setup scripts with
exim (The new default email server).
To fix this problem, edit your /etc/exim.conf file and change the
following line :-
local_domains = <yourbasedomainname>
to
local_domains = <yourbasedomainname> : localhost
This should fix the problem you are having. If you don't use exim, then
unfortunately I don't have a clue as to what is happening :)
HTH,
Peter Ludwig
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