Re: Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Ionut Borcoman at musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


> 
> bash-2.01$ fetchmail 
> fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro.
> reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501
> <@mail.mailbox.ro
> > : colon expected after route
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 501  : sender address must contain a
> domain
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.mailbox.ro
> bash-2.01$ 
> 
> 
> In /var/log/exim
> 
> 1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected:  H=localhost
> (debian.borco.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut)
> 

The problem isn't with fetchmail exactly, it's with exim - What
appears to be happening is that error messages have no envelope sender 
(presumably to prevent stuff from being thrown back at them - there's
no point in generating an error message for an error message), so
fetchmail just uses your name as the envelope sender.

Exim, however, doesn't want to accept your unqualified (unqualified
here means a name such as "ionut" and not "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
username as a sending address.  The way to tell exim to behave more
like less paranoid mailers and accept this unqualified address is to
put the following in /etc/exim.conf:

sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost

Hmmm... I wonder if I've been missing some error messages because of
this... (I didn't have this line in my exim.conf until now either).

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Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

[Ionut Borcoman at musa]

Hi,

(Background: my home computer is connected via ppp to my isp; my home pc
is debian.borco.net; the isp server is mail.mailbox.ro; i use fetchmail
to get the mails after I connect to the isp via ppp. For reading and
writing I use Netscape Mail, which reads from the local machine and
sends mails to a queue. The MTA is exim, which is set to re-write the
headers (set the From and Sender to my e-mail from my isp). The machine
is hamm.)

Yesterday I wanted to write to the KDE maintainer. His address was
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The mail returned because "unknown user". My problem is
not this but that the fetchmail didn't want to download the returned
message. 

Here are the information I gathered:

At the prompt:

bash-2.01$ fetchmail 
fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro.
reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501
<@mail.mailbox.ro
> : colon expected after route
fetchmail: SMTP error: 501  : sender address must contain a
domain
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.mailbox.ro
bash-2.01$ 


In /var/log/exim

1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected:  H=localhost
(debian.borco.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut)


In /var/log/rejectlog

--
1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected:  H=localhost
(debian.bor
co.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut)
--


The /home/ionut/.fetchmailrc:

defaults
fetchall
poll mail.mailbox.ro with proto pop3:
user borco there has password XXX and is ionut here


The header of the mail that produced this:

Return-Path: <>
Received: from master.debian.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
[205.229.104.5])
  by box.mailbox.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA31758 for
  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:47:23 +0300
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 32730 invoked for bounce); 20 May 1998 13:39:03 -
Date: 20 May 1998 13:39:03 -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Status: RO
X-Mozilla-Status: 8001


I was able to download the mail by changing the settings of the Netscape
Mail (to point directly to my isp, not to the local machine).

So, is this because a security setting or what ? How do I avoid this in
future ? Or should I let it as it is ?

TIA,

Ionutz


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