On 10 Aug 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
>
>I just switched over from sendmail to exim on one of my machines, and
>I was having a problem getting mail from any other machine via
>fetchmail. If I put fetchmail in verbose mode I can see that exim is
>rejecting the SMTP command because there's no domain name:
>
>fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<rlb>
>fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <rlb>: recipient address must contain a domain
>
>But it's fetchmail that's trying to send the mail locally to <rlb>
>over the SMTP connection with no domain. I feel sure I've overlooked
>something simple. I found that you can fix the problem by using the
>fetchmail mda option with a setting of "/usr/sbin/exim -bm %s ", but
>the fetchmail FAQ claims this is a bad idea.
>
>$ fetchmail -u rlb -a mailbox.cs.utexas.edu
>Enter password for rlb@???:
>fetchmail: 4 messages (4 seen) at rlb@???.
>reading message 1 of 4 (488 header bytes) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `rlb'
>fetchmail: can't even send to calling user!
>fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mailbox.cs.utexas.edu: Unknown error 18446744073709551615
>fetchmail: terminated with signal 2
>
>Thanks
>--
>Rob
>
>
