Samuel Penn writes: 

> courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
> courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:127.0.0.1,
>                from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>                to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 513 Relaying denied.
> courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:127.0.0.1,
>                from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>                to=<sam@localhost>: 513 Syntax error. 
> 
> 
> Is there a way of switching on more debug in courieresmptd? Or
> is the reason 'obvious' from the information above?

Yes, it's obvious. 

> 
> The email was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> samuel.penn@cablemodem[1]. The mail is downloaded from NTL's
> POP3 server (by fetchmail), and forwarded to ESMTPD, presumably
> to the user sam@localhost. At this point I get the syntax error.

Because "@localhost" is not a valid, fully-qualified, Internet mail domain. 

> I'm not sure why it's trying to relay to sam@bifrost, unless
> it's trying to send an error back to the original sender.

It is, and @bifrost.demon.co.uk is not considered a local mail domain, and 
127.0.0.1 is not authorized to relay mail. 

> I can get fetchmail to rewrite the recipient, but this doesn't
> appear to have any effect, except that sam@localhost becomes
> sam@wotan or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wotan being the name of the server).

Neither of which is a valid fully-qualified mail domain either. 

-- 
Sam 


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