My thanks to John Penton for his assistance with my difficulties. Configuring the
local_domains list properly sure helps...
Another thing that helped was reading an FAQ on Fetchmail entitled:
"How can I use fetchmail with exim?"
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#T3
I hope this might help someone else using Fetchmail.
- Mark Rice
admin@???
>From: "John (TJ) Penton" <ajp38@???>
>To:admin@???
>Subject:Re: [Exim] a newbie needs help...
>Datesent: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:25:08 +0000 (GMT)
>Copies to: exim-users@???
> Can I also suggest that you take this project in little steps - rather
> than try and do it all in one go.
> 1. Unplug your modem (save embarassing mistakes).
> 2. Run exim and use something simple like mail (or a telnet connection) to
> try and send a local mail. Check that this has been delivered by reading
> the mailbox manually. (It's just a text file).
> 3. Plug the modem in and use fetchmail (not in batch mode to save
> embarassing mistakes) to fetch a single test message. Check that this
> gets delivered correctly.
> 4. Then make more complex arrangements like filtering/batch mode/aliasing.
>
> > 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
>
> Doesn't look too bad. local_domains should include neteffex.com and
> localhost.
>
> > I set up a .forward file under /home/bill:
> > #Exim filter
> > if $header_to: contains bill then deliver bill endif
>
> This doesn't do anything, on several counts:
> The To: header is not always set for an email.
> It is in "bill"'s home directory - therefore everything going through this
> filter will be for bill anyway.
> It says "if this email is for bill, then deliver it to bill" - this is
> kinda pointless since mail for bill should get delivered to him anyway.
>
> The one thing it does do is remove the domain. All matching email is
> being delivered to the address "bill" - since you don't specify a domain I
> am not sure what exim is doing with it.
>
> I suggest you remove this file for now.
>
> > 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.
>
> This begs the question: how did you manage to generate 2000 emails??
> Surely you didn't send that many test messages? I suspect all your email
> has been going to this guy.
>
>
> Like I say - take it in little steps and fix things at each stage.
> Looking at your logs should give you enough information to work out what
> is going on.
>
> HTH
>
> John
>
> --
> and then he climbed to the top of his tree and climbed down
> again, and then he wondered what Pooh was doing, and went
> across the Forest to see.
>
>
>
