Thanks all for the responses,
I called my isp, and they said they could help me if I was using
Outlook or Eudora :0 , but otherwise I was out of luck.
Another user suggested putting a useable alias address
in /etc/email-addresses, so I'll try this over the weekend
to see if it helps get something in there that is "sensible."
I know I can alter my hostname in the /etc/exim.conf file, but
I am leary of this because 1) For it to be correct, I'd have to
add something in front of the '@' symbol (my isp name is
gtw3, my debian user name is gtw) and 2) I'm not the only
one who would be using exim as the mua, so if another user
sent mail it would have the wrong address on it and 3) that
may impact local delivery (which works well btw).
Again, thanks everyone for your help, George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Metheringham
> [mailto:Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:03 AM
> To: George Wright; 'exim-users@???'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Remote delivery problem on dialup
>
>
>
> GWright@??? said:
> > 2001-01-11 15:20:43 14GoDD-0000hb-00 <= gtw@cyclops U=gtw P=local
> > S=449 id=20010111152042.A2698@cyclops 2001-01-11 15:20:45
>
> Unless that originator address is being rewritten elsewhere, I'd say
> your problem is there.
>
> I'd guess what happens is that the system at 207.172.4.99 is not
> verifying sender addresses (bad idea), and accepting your mail. It
> then tries to send the mail on to the final destination,
> which refuses
> to accept it as gtw@cyclops cannot be verified. Then your smarthost
> box is trying to send an error message back to you, but
> cannot route to
> gtw@cyclops so from your point of view the mail just disappears.
>
> If you send mail off your machine you *must* have the sender
> addresses
> set to something sensible that you own.
>
> Nigel.
>
>
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