Seems like I rejoiced too early. I didn't get any bounces because of the
following error:
2017-11-12 05:55:02 unqualified recipient rejected: <XXXXX>
H=(xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxxx) [127.0.0.1] (127.0.0.1 does not match any IP
address for localhost)
where XXXXX is a local user name which owns .fetchmailrc. So the part of
fetchmail configuration which actually worked was
set no bouncemail
which directs error mails to the unqualified username of the user running
fetchmail.
And now the question is why exim can't deliver mail to an unqualified local
username. See rather cryptic
127.0.0.1 does not match any IP address for localhost
above. I've found several VERY old threads on the subject but no real
solution. The host is IPv6-aware.
# host localhost
localhost has address 127.0.0.1
localhost has IPv6 address ::1
# host 127.0.0.1
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost.
2017-11-12 11:56 GMT+03:00 Александр Кириллов <nevis2us@???>:
> xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxxx is a LAN hostname. [127.0.0.1] is locally running
> fetchmail so I can't reject messages from this address. I've added
>
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
>
> to .fetchmailrc and this seems to be helping though I thought "no
> spambounce" is the default.
>
>
> 2017-11-12 9:07 GMT+03:00 Jasen Betts <jasen@???>:
>
>> On 2017-11-11, Always Learning <exim@???> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 18:38 +0300, Александр Кириллов via Exim-users
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2017-11-09 23:15:02 1eCtE6-0002Q1-6H H=(xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxxx)
>> [127.0.0.1]
>> >
>> > If the HELO/EHLO = 127.0.0.1 then you should immediately reject the
>> > message. No point in further processing of any description.
>>
>> looks more like helo was xxxxx, and the connection was from localhost.
>>
>> xxxxx was probaby a lie, 127.0.0.1 may be untrue also.
>>
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