On 29 Jan 1998, Joerg Plate wrote:
> > Sending a line starting with "From " is not a valid SMTP command.
> I know... but I didn't say exactly what I have done.
>
> --cut-here--
> helo psyche
> mail from: plate@psyche
> rcpt to: plate@psyche
> data
> From foobar 08:15 4711
> Received: ...
> Subject: ...
> From: ...
>
> for bar baz :-)
> .
> quit
> --cut-here--
> "Fetchmail" feeds something like that to exim via port 25.
Well, that's wrong. What comes after the DATA command is a message
formatted according to RFC 822. The sender of the message is given in
the MAIL FROM line, so there is no need for the "From " which is used in
the UUCP world to contain the sender.
> BTW: my problem is solved. Now I use
> mda "/usr/sbin/exim -bm %T"
> in my "~/.fetchmailrc" and it is working :-)
That sounds like the right way to do it.
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