Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
hi, ...mind if i join in the fun? i can follow mr. deackes's info, and thx for providing it. using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root user account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so, i need to change, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of emails.) do i have to adduser pplaw to the box and then login as pplaw? (i'd rather not have to do this, but i certally will if it's the only way it'll work.) ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // Phillip Deackes wrote: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local network (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How do I set up a domain name in Debian? OK. I too use GMX. Excellent service too. My machine's name (hostname) is scgf. If I look in /etc/hosts I see: 127.0.0.1 scgf localhost In /etc/hostname: scgf scgf does not exist in the real world, just on my machine. My /etc/exim.conf it set up like this (there is a lot more besides, of course, but these lines are relevant to this thread): qualify_domain = gmx.co.uk qualify_recipient = scgf.gmx.co.uk local_domains = localhost:scgf.gmx.co.uk host_accept_relay = localhost The above lines ensure that all outgoing mail appears to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mail is delivered locally and does not leave my system. All incoming mail from my ISP, collected by fetchmail, is detected by Exim and is delivered according to the filters in my ~/.forward file. Using the hostname avaoids the problem you mentioned, Michael, where gmx.net (or gmx.co.uk in my case) would otherwise be seen as a local domain and mail to other gmx.net users would not leave the system. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
In mutt, right before you send a message you can change the From: line with 'escf'. However, a better way to go about your problem would be to add a line to your ~/.muttrc with something like my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every time you send e-mail, this e-mail address will be used for the From: line. -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root user account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so, i need to change, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of emails.) do i have to adduser pplaw to the box and then login as pplaw? (i'd rather not have to do this, but i certally will if it's the only way it'll work.)
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim (wrong address)
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
hi,
...mind if i join in the fun?
i can follow mr. deackes's info, and thx for providing it.
using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the
incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root
user
account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so, i need to change,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of emails.) do
i have to
adduser pplaw to the box and then login as pplaw? (i'd rather not have
to do
this, but i certally will if it's the only way it'll work.)
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
Well, at least my exim setup using eximconfig made this to the end of
/etc/exim.conf
# There are no rewriting specifications in this default configuration file.
#
# This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
I have added
eplehton: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to my /etc/email-addresses and exim seems to change [EMAIL PROTECTED]
correctlyto my real address.
//
Phillip Deackes wrote:
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential
problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local
network (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How
cutted out
WYSINWYG - What You See Is Never What You Get
Esko Lehtonen
esko dot lehtonen at pp dot htv dot fi
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim (wrong address)
hi esko,
ah-ha! yes, that did the trick.
thx for your help.
bentley taylor.
(potato on 2.2.16)
//
Esko Lehtonen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
hi,
...mind if i join in the fun?
i can follow mr. deackes's info, and thx for providing it.
using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the
incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my
non-root user
account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so, i need to change,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of emails.)
do i have to
adduser pplaw to the box and then login as pplaw? (i'd rather not
have to do
this, but i certally will if it's the only way it'll work.)
ia, t.
bentley taylor
(potato on 2.2.16)
Well, at least my exim setup using eximconfig made this to the end of
/etc/exim.conf
# There are no rewriting specifications in this default configuration file.
#
# This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
I have added
eplehton: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to my /etc/email-addresses and exim seems to change [EMAIL PROTECTED]
correctlyto my real address.
//
Phillip Deackes wrote:
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential
problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local
network (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How
cutted out
WYSINWYG - What You See Is Never What You Get
Esko Lehtonen
esko dot lehtonen at pp dot htv dot fi
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Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
cls-colo spgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root user account.my email addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so, i need to change, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of emails.) do i have to adduser pplaw to the box and then login as pplaw? (i'd rather not have to do this, but i certally will if it's the only way it'll work.) The best way of sorting this system-wide is to add a re-writing rule to your /etc/exim.conf. On my system I have a user called scott and his email address would be set by exim as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately his email address is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the line I needed to add: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr This means that when exim sees [EMAIL PROTECTED] it changes it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The line is added right at the end of /etc/exim.conf - you will see similar lines commented out. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:37PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: So I reconfigured exim. Now it says: The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this system: woof, netway.at with 'netway.at' being the second part of my e-mail address. The problem remains. Did I make a stupid entry? Is there something else missing? Maybe. I had this kind of problem before, I am not an exim adept, but by putting my domain name gmx.net (which is some sort of freemail service like Hotmail in Europe) in, Exim started trying to deliver mails to other GMX users ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) locally, which obviously ended in Recipient unknown or whatever. Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local network (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How do I set up a domain name in Debian? Michael Banck
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if this is applyable here, just pointing out a potential problem. Actually, I don't really have a domain name for my local network (i.e. my desktp and my notebook) I just use hostnames. How do I set up a domain name in Debian? OK. I too use GMX. Excellent service too. My machine's name (hostname) is scgf. If I look in /etc/hosts I see: 127.0.0.1 scgf localhost In /etc/hostname: scgf scgf does not exist in the real world, just on my machine. My /etc/exim.conf it set up like this (there is a lot more besides, of course, but these lines are relevant to this thread): qualify_domain = gmx.co.uk qualify_recipient = scgf.gmx.co.uk local_domains = localhost:scgf.gmx.co.uk host_accept_relay = localhost The above lines ensure that all outgoing mail appears to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mail is delivered locally and does not leave my system. All incoming mail from my ISP, collected by fetchmail, is detected by Exim and is delivered according to the filters in my ~/.forward file. Using the hostname avaoids the problem you mentioned, Michael, where gmx.net (or gmx.co.uk in my case) would otherwise be seen as a local domain and mail to other gmx.net users would not leave the system. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
Andreas Hetzmannseder said: The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this system: woof Unless your incoming email is addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim will not recognize it as being for a user on your system. You need to give exim a valid local domain. -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
Florian Friesdorf said: I just switch over from qmail to exim. my fetchmailrc looks very similar, except I'm not using the mda option. Somehow fetchmail knows how to contact exim. Your MTA (exim, qmail, sendmail, whatever) listens for connections on port 25. fetchmail connects to port 25 to deliver messages. -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
Florian Friesdorf wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:32:49AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: [...] My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop.netway.at proto pop3 user my-remote-username password my-password is andy here mda /usr/bin/exim I just switch over from qmail to exim. my fetchmailrc looks very similar, except I'm not using the mda option. Somehow fetchmail knows how to contact exim. But if you use the mda option, I think it should be mda /usr/bin/exim -bs That's the way exim gets called from inetd. [...] fetchmail complains about the -bs switch. It says 'parse error'... problem remains... Regards, Andreas.
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
Dave Sherohman wrote: Andreas Hetzmannseder said: The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this system: woof Unless your incoming email is addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim will not recognize it as being for a user on your system. You need to give exim a valid local domain. So I reconfigured exim. Now it says: The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this system: woof, netway.at with 'netway.at' being the second part of my e-mail address. The problem remains. Did I make a stupid entry? Is there something else missing? Interestingly the error messages differ in respect to whether the mda option in ~/fetchmailrc is specified or not. If it is it says: '...neither action flags...' etc. if it is not it says: '...SMTP transaction error... Kind regards, Andreas.
trouble with fetchmail via exim
Dear debian-users, I ran fetchmail, it read the first incoming message, but then it stopped and told me the following: ..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given. fetchmail terminated with signal 13 My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop.netway.at proto pop3 user my-remote-username password my-password is andy here mda /usr/bin/exim eximconfig gives me the following summary: Mail generated on this system will have 'woof' used as the domain part (after the @ in the From: field and similar places). The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this system: woof Mail for postmaster, root, etc. will be sent to andy. Local mail is delivered. Outbound remote mail is sent via smtp.netway.at. If anybody knows, what might be wrong or missing, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Andreas.
Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:32:49AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: Dear debian-users, I ran fetchmail, it read the first incoming message, but then it stopped and told me the following: ..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given. fetchmail terminated with signal 13 My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop.netway.at proto pop3 user my-remote-username password my-password is andy here mda /usr/bin/exim I just switch over from qmail to exim. my fetchmailrc looks very similar, except I'm not using the mda option. Somehow fetchmail knows how to contact exim. But if you use the mda option, I think it should be mda /usr/bin/exim -bs That's the way exim gets called from inetd. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgp6NMnwzL1QI.pgp Description: PGP signature
