Well I don't really know exim, but if you were using sendmail, you'd have to tell the sendmail config (/etc/sendmail.cf) to accept mail for you domain and as well as localhost. So I guess it would apply to exim config too. Find the config file and tell exim to accept mail for localhost
-----Original Message----- From: Monte Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 7 May 1999 14:03 Subject: Can't get fetchmail to fetch. >I have recently installed Debian slink. I have successfully configured >Exim and I can send email out to my isp mailhost using Mutt but I can't >get fetchmail to successfully retrieve any email from it. When I run the >following command : > >% fetchmail -a -k -v >& fetchmail.log >% cat fetchmail.log > >I get the following output: > >fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying mailhub.icx.net (protocol POP3) at Thu May 6 >23:40:59 1999 >fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version IDG-1.2.53) at icx.net starting. >fetchmail: POP3> USER copelandm >fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for copelandm. >fetchmail: POP3> PASS * >fetchmail: POP3< +OK copelandm has 1 message (808 octets). >fetchmail: POP3> STAT >fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 808 >fetchmail: POP3> LIST >fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (808 octets) >fetchmail: POP3< 1 808 >fetchmail: POP3< . >1 message for copelandm at mailhub.icx.net (808 octets). >fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 >fetchmail: POP3< +OK 808 octets >reading message 1 of 1 (808 octets) >fetchmail: SMTP< 220 dharma ESMTP Exim 2.05 #1 Thu, 6 May 1999 23:41:03 >-0400 >fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost >fetchmail: SMTP< 250-dharma Hello copelandm at dharma [127.0.0.1] >fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE >fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING >fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP >fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=808 >fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically >correct >fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >fetchmail: SMTP< 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by >administrator >fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address >[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >fetchmail: SMTP< 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by >administrator >fetchmail: can't even send to copelandm! >fetchmail: SMTP> RSET >fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset OK >fetchmail: POP3> QUIT >fetchmail: POP3< >fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mailhub.icx.net >fetchmail: Query status=10 >fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT >fetchmail: SMTP< 221 dharma closing connection >fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 > > >I sent a test message from my account at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to my icx.net account. >My machine is named 'dharma' . The problem seems to be the "@localhost" >. I don't know if it is fetchmail that is doing it or if it is Exim. Any >solutions. > >Thank you, > >Monte > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
