Ah, yes. I see about the time. I should have included all of the log
messages. The last one was actually stamped 15:26:02. I just chose the
the wrong one as the sample message. It seemed though that something
(Fetchmail probably) was in a loop. The only thing in the reject log
file was message after message showing unqualified sender <root>. I
figured that it was the <root> that was causing it but not what was
generating the message. I figured it was the "alain" message as that
message kept being repeated in my local mailbox and no other messages
were getting through. I wonder if it was fetchmail itself generating the
message as <root>? Maybe it was complaining about something in the
"alain" message. As soon as I cleared that message from the pop3 mailbox
on my isp, everything worked ok.
So really, this has nothing to do with Exim.
So why am I still typing...?
Thanks for your time Philip.
Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:
>
>
>>rejectlog snip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>2003-04-09 14:58:57 unqualified sender rejected: <root>
>>H=bcsisco.bcsi1.com [207.112.1.33]
>
>
>>The mailog showed:
>>
>>mainlog snip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>2003-04-09 15:26:01 193LCn-0001ZZ-00 <= alain@???
>
>
> Completely unrelated. Look at the two different times.
>
>
>>Here's what I think happened:
>>
>>1) the email was fetched from the remote pop3 server
>>
>>2) fetchmail submitted it the local exim server
>>
>>3) exim rejected it because of the domain literals in this line:
>>
>>Received: from (64.119.120.114 [64.119.120.114]) by MailEnable Inbound
>
>
> Nope. Exim doesn't pay any attention to the contents of Received
> headers. What it rejected was the command
>
> MAIL FROM:<root>
>
> because the sender address was unqualified, as the error message says.
> You need to find out what was attempting to submit this invalid message
> by SMTP to your Exim server.
>
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>
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