On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:48:07PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
| I use Fetchmail/Exim combination. This afternoon I got an e-mail from the
| debian mailing list saying it was unsubscribing me because of lots of bounced
| mails.
|
| I checked with /var/log/exim/rejectlog and sure enough I seem to be getting
| loads of rejected messages. According to the logs (not sure about the actual
| messages) all the mails have invalid addresses of <> in either the CC: field
| or occassionally the To: field.
|
| What could be causing this sort of problem and is their any exim (or
| fetchmail) parameter I can set to stop these particular messages bouncing?
In exim.conf, change the setting of headers_check_syntax to false. I
don't know why you're having that problem since I enable that feature
(it kills a fair amount of spam) and haven't had any problems (except
for the occaisonal some broken stuff from Outhouse that I want to
receive).
-D
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