On 29 Jan 1998, Joerg Plate wrote:
>
> Hello-hello
>
> I try to use 'exim' with 'fetchmail' but it does not work...
>
> 'Fetchmail' fetches my email from a pop3-server and delivers
> it to port 25. If the email starts with a "From ..." line
> 'exim' treats the whole message (header and body) as the
> body of an email without headers and generates its own headers.
> If I remove the first line 'exim' works as expected.
Port 25 is the SMTP port. The specification of what you can sent to port
25 is RFC 821. Sending a line starting with "From " is not a valid SMTP
command.
Actually, I don't believe what you say about it working if you remove
the first line. You can't just feed a message to port 25; you have to
have SMTP commands and accept responses. Are you *really* sending this
to port 25, or are you calling Exim some other way? What is the precise
content of the From line?
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