Without going into too much more detail, its probably something you are
going to have to work out with your ISP.
Its possible they have your domain (neteffex.com) aliased to theirs, and
have arranged for only a specific address to be delivered to your
account. Its also possible that the local-parts for your domain share
namespace with theirs, thus causing bill@??? and
bill@??? to get delivered to the same mailbox on their server.
If the MX record for neteffex.com does not point at the fixed IP address
of a nailed-up server that is under your control, then you will have to
rely on whoever controls the server it does point at to deliver your
mail. There is more than one way to do this, so (not to belabor the
point, but) - contact the ISP that provides your DNS/mail service.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 admin@??? wrote:
> Well I really screwed up big time. And before I make any further gross errors, I'm seeking the
> advice of those much more learned here on this list. I've studied (but obviously not enough) the
> various help files and thought I was heading the right direction.... but....
>
> I have a dialup access to my isp (argontech.net). I also have a private network with Exim 3.34
> installed on a Linux machine. [See:
> http://www.neteffex.com/exim/network.gif
> for a network layout of the system.]
>
> Currently, all e-mail for the neteffex.com domain is obtained from the hosting server,
> mail.argontech.net. There are no username filters on mail.argontech.net... so if someone
> sends an e-mail to "hey-dummy@???" I would receive it.
>
> My desire is to filter out the endless amounts of spam and allow (on the Linux private network)
> multiple user names utilizing Exim, and have those user names visible to the outside world
> (i.e., bill@???).
>
> Initially, I was going to have all the neteffex.com e-mail deposited in one directory
> (/var/spool/bill) on the Linux machine. And then after testing things out, I was going to begin
> expanding the Linux local user names.
>
> For the sake of protecting privacy, I was going to send all e-mail to a user "bill".
> You can see my Exim runtime file at:
> http://www.neteffex.com/exim/exim-configure.txt
>
> I set up a .forward file under /home/bill:
> #Exim filter
> if $header_to: contains bill then deliver bill endif
>
> The .fetchmailrc file contains:
> # .fetchmailrc file for backup.neteffex.home
> # set postmaster "admin"
> set daemon 240
> # Run fetchmail as daemon every 4 minutes
> poll mail.argontech.net proto pop3 user "my_user_name" pass "a_big_secret" fetchall
>
> I sent an e-mail out from mail.argontech.net to admin@??? and I picked up the mail
> at mail.argontech.net using fetchmail.
>
> I couldn't seem to retrieve the e-mail locally out of the Linux box using qpopper and Kmail (but I
> could see the spooled files waiting delivery to a mailbox).... So I tried sending out a few more
> test e-mails, (and meanwhile, I was receiving some spam e-mails). After a few days of trying
> to send out test e-mails, look what I get from bill@???:
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> Return-Path: <bill@???>
> Received: from billpersonal (ws1-ppp6.argontech.net [63.82.102.6])
> by ns1.argontech.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3KLe6t18930
> for <bill@???>; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:40:06 -0500
> From: "bill \(Argon\)" <bill@???>
> To: <admin@???>
> Subject: RE: time of1051
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:44:05 -0500
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> You have spammed over 2,000 emails through my account in the last 3 days.
> I have done an IP trace, and turned you over to the authorities.
> This is a $2,000 per occurrence fine under Federal Spamming laws,
> and up to a year in Federal Prison.
> ___________________________________________________________________________
>
> I sent an e-mail to bill@??? apologizing profusely and correcting him (gently) about
> his mistaken notion of the existance of spam laws. I assured him that he wouldn't be bothered
> any more and that I was attempting to set up mail configuration files and filters.
>
> My Exim activities, however, are stopped until I can work through what happened... and correct
> the configuration files. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Embarrassed to even call myself an admin,
> mark
> admin@???
>
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