Please, any commentary at all? Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Thu 07 Aug 02003 at 04:45:17PM -0500): > Recently, I am getting emails bounced back to me from my mail gateway. > Strangely, the attempted outgoing From: is > FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@bragi.private.network ?!?! > > The entire bounce is here: > > <http://helices.org/tmP/exim.relay.txt> > > I do not claim to know much about this process. > > However, correct me if I'm wrong, it looks to me that -- initially -- > fetchmail gets an email message from one of my many remote mail servers, > and passes it off to exim for local processing. > > The To: header is mangled, and noted, and 550 is returned. > > Then, somehow -- this is the part that I do not understand, and that I > want to *STOP* happening -- FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@bragi.private.network > attempts to send an email -- containing this 550 error -- to some > address unknown to me. Note: the URL is only one (1) of many > _different_ examples I am seeing. > > Of course, the remote SMTP server rejects > FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@bragi.private.network: Domain not found, and > eventually, I receive the error that the bounce bounced! > > So, I want to know several things: > > [1] Am I correct on the process as evident from the URL? > > [2] What process steps am I missing and/or misunderstanding? > > [3] How can I prevent these attempts to send these messages From: > FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@bragi.private.network? > > [4] Is exim the culprit? Need I configure it differently? > > # sudo exim -bV > Exim version 3.36 #1 built 24-Jul-2003 23:00:48 > Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002 > > What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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