Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

On 10 Aug, 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

Hello,

I got fetchmail and exim working together on my stand-alone linux box by
adding:

receiver_unqualified_hosts = localhost

to exim's configure file. I hope this is of some use.

Friso Kuipers.