Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10 / Fetchmail rejected

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Author: John Jetmore
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To: Frank S. Bernhardt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10 / Fetchmail rejected
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:

> were getting through. I wonder if it was fetchmail itself generating the
> message as <root>? Maybe it was complaining about something in the


I'm certainly not a fetchmail expert (IANAFE? =)), but I have it set up on
a personal machine and it re-injects msgs w/ the same envelope info used
to deliver it on the server you're getting it from. So if whatever
delivered it to your pop server allowed <root> as a sender, fetchmail will
re-inject it w/ the same sender.

--John

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> > ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

> >
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