[Disclaimer: I'm no expert here, so please add salt as necessary...] On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:49:34PM -0700, Carl Weidling wrote: > Hello, > > When I run my slackware distro, I'm used to using fetchmail get mail > with the command: > > fetchmail -k --protocol POP3 -u cpw pop.rahul.net > > Fetchmail then asks me for a password, and gets the mail. I read it > using mailx. > > However, when I try this from my newly installed Debian Woody distro, > fetchmail spits out something like: > > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:259 of 261 (3121 octets) ..fetchmail:\ > SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\ > ... Domain of sender address \ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist > . not flushed > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:260 of 261 (3327 octets) ..fetchmail:\ > SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...\ > Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > does not exist > . not flushed
Here fetchmail seems to retrieve your mail OK, but things go wrong when fetchmail hands them over to your local MTA. > and there's no mail for mailx to fetch, nothing in /var/mail/cpw. I > can send mail locally and it shows up in /var/mail, and can be read by > mailx, but nothing from fetchmail. Right now, the only way I can read > mail from my ISP in Debian is with netscape messenger. I presume that netscape is set up to talk to your ISP's smtp/(pop3|imap) server? Which MTA are you running ? (exim, sendmail etc?) From the messages, it looks like your MTA is attempting to verify that the sender's domain exists (a common anti-spam measure, I believe). But lists.debian.org *does* indeed exist :-) Time to look into your MTA config HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com Please read http://www.pantsfullofunix.net before reporting bugs in my code.
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