On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:40:04PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have this little issue with exim. My setup is that I'm retrieving mail > from several POP accounts (for one local user) with fetchmail, which hands > off to exim. Currently I have exim filtering and delivering (maybe I'll get > into procmail someday soon, but not yet). > Now, my mail seems to be coming and going... mostly happily. > But I keep seeing this in eximon (which is just showing me exim's mainlog, > AFAIK): > > 22:46:08 SMTP command timeout on connection from miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] > 22:46:22 unqualified recipient rejected: <fetchmail> H=miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] U=fetchmail That looks like exim is complaining because it can't deliver mail to an address called 'miguel', which is missing a hostname. I *think* you have to add a 'qualify_domain' or 'qualify_recipient' line to /etc/exim/exim.conf so that it has a default hostname to slap on it. Or maybe you've done something odd to your ~/.forward that exim thinks is an email address? But, yeah, I only have a very, er, 'working' knowledge of exim (aka I muddle my way through it, but don't *Really* know what I'm doing...), so IANEximHacker, don't sue, eat vegetables, etc :) > This has just started happening this evening... it may coincide with a new > rule I put in my .forward file, but that's just a filter to save incoming > mail to different mboxes in my ~/Mail directory (basically a clone of the > rule that's been working fine for this list) so I don't see how that change > would result in this complaint... ? As I said, maybe it's a broken config thingy? Do you mention the word 'miguel' in your ~/.forward or something? > Now, I'm sure that somewhere in exim's voluminous heap of documentation, > there's a bit that tells me what this means. But if someone can either see > right off what would be causing this, or point me at the appropriate *part* > of the, ahem, 'fine' manual... I'd be grateful. Oh yeah, been there and still am. Exim may be 'well' documented, but if you don't know mail systems like the back of your hand (as I certainly don't), it's nigh impossible to get anywhere with it. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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