Re: [Exim] Unpleasant fetchmail/exim interaction

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Author: Jim Knoble
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Unpleasant fetchmail/exim interaction
Circa 2001-Sep-14 09:52:08 -0400 dixit Greg Ward:

: Running Exim 3.22 and fetchmail 5.8.3 on a Progeny Debian Linux 1.0
: system (which is pretty close to Debian 2.2). Yesterday, I changed Exim
: to listen to port 26 instead of port 25, since my ISP now seems to block
: port 25 for me (thanks, guys!).

[...]

: SMTP> RCPT TO:<greg@localhost/26>
: SMTP< 501 <greg@localhost/26>: malformed address: /26> may not follow <greg@localhost
: SMTP> RSET
: SMTP< 250 Reset OK
: flushed
: POP3> DELE 9
:
: I can see at least two fetchmail bugs here: it gets the local address
: wrong, [...]

Use fetchmail's 'smtpaddress' keyword to specify the the domain used in
RCPT TO.

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