From: Simo PW Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:44:17PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me about mainlog. I'm also getting a lot of these > > which may be from a bad fetchmail config. > > > > 2005-09-02 18:32:29 1EBMtO-0007uZ-9Q == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost > > T=remote_smtp_smarthost def\ > > er (0): SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> SIZE=2875: host \ > > mail.ultrasw.com [66.181.240.7]: 451 4.7.0 Could not identify sender - DNS > > error 9002 > > Now it seems that exim sends the mail to smarthost eventhough the mail > is from fetchmail and is meant for you. I have been looking for documentation thats tells me more about how this all works and have not been completely successful. If I send a test message to my email address I want exim to send it to my ISP and then fetchmail to retrieve it. If I send a message to debian-user I want exim to send it to debian-user. > > What is your fetchmailrc like? # Configuration created Thu Dec 19 13:49:58 2002 by fetchmailconf set postmaster "paul" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" set daemon 1 poll ultrasw.com via mail.ultrasw.com with proto POP3 user 'waterhorse' there with password 'secret' is 'waterhorse' here options fetchall # user 'paslist' there with password 'secret' is 'paslist' here options fetchall user 'pslist' there with password 'secret' is 'pslist' here options fetchall I have three mailboxes. I have stopped fetching mail from the one that is subscribed to debian-user so I can maintain a proper thread. I now remember that I may have changed the 'is' values to my login name here when I was working on this same problem on my laptop. I will change the "is' values now. > Mine is like this: > poll incoming.myisp.com > user username_in_isp > password secret > is username_local_user > > Also make sure that your /etc/mailname is set correctly. I have > something.myisp.com (where something is the dynamic part of my FQDN) > as the mailname and I also have that in the dc_other_hostnames list. > > I guess the main problem here is the name of your machine. /etc/mailname is blank. Do you mean that I should use mail.ultrasw.com ? > See also the question G11 in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html. I don't quite know what to do with that information. I understand that the last paragraph refers to something I have been told about but don't know what to do about. Thanks, Paul