Strange fetchmail/exim/whoknows behaviour

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading.  I have upgraded to
some packages in

http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/

as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the
latest apt installed).

Anyway, since that time I have started having problems with using
fetchmail to download my email from uni.  It happily fetches the mail
okay, but when I go to read it, they've gone!

So I decided to find out what was going on by reading
var/log/exim/mainlog and have discovered the following:

1999-08-10 22:56:28 11EBv2-0000b1-00 => mark@ist.flinders.edu.au <root@localho
st> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21]
1999-08-10 22:56:28 11EBv2-0000b1-00 Completed
1999-08-10 22:56:29 11EBv5-0000b1-00 => mark@ist.flinders.edu.au <root@localho
st> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21]
1999-08-10 22:56:29 11EBv5-0000b1-00 Completed

That is, for some reason, the email downloaded from fetchmail is
diverted back to mark@ist.flinders.edu.au --- which is where it came
from.  That is, fetchmail gets it from uni, and exim sends it straight
back there!!!

Now this behaviour never used to happen.  It used to put it in
/var/spool/mail/mark but no more.

I thought it must have been due to the fact that I had just upgraded
exim from exim_2.05-1_i386.deb to exim_2.05-2_i386.deb, so I decided
to downgrade it back to 2.05-1.  Unfortunately the problem still
remains (unless for some reason the machine needs a reboot before it's
affected?)

Any ideas?  (Please cc any replies directly to my address)

Thanks,

Mark.




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