Re: Exim vs. Win95

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Don Strayer wrote:

> 
> The message in exim's rejectlog on the gateway says (lightly edited):
> 
> 1999-07-13 21:37:05 unqualified sender rejected: <username> \
> H=system2.sadt.com (system2.sadt.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) [192.168.1.33]
> 
> The ...in-addr.arpa business looks fishy, but mail accepted from System
> 1 causes a similar-looking mainlog entry:
> 
> 1999-07-13 21:29:34 114Dra-0003WK-00 <= dstrayer@sadt.com H=system1.sadt.com \
> (system1.sadt.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) [192.168.1.34] P=smtp S=675 \
> id=01BECD76.0CF26600@system1.sadt.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> 
> What is exim trying to tell me?

It is trying to tell you that you either need a mail client that fully
qualfies the sender as user@host.domain.tld OR you need to tell exim to
accept unqualified addresses from certain hosts/networks.