Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > >> I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups. >> >> In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed >> up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded messages were >> deleted as spam, and as I fiddled, fetchmail could not download messages >> because the mail server did not like the information it received (SMTP >> error: 550 Administrative prohibition), and now fetchmail does not even >> see any messages. > > This isn't all too helpful, I know. Exim in Debian is a political > decision; due to licensing. The first thing I always do to any Debian-box > is installing Postfix. > Not that I had anything against Exim, only at installing Debian, it would > offer several alternatives of configuring Exim that I, as a professional, > couldn't understand. That's useless software for you. My 2 sen.
Thanks, Uwe. In fact, I used to run postfix, but when things got too complicated for me in trying to reject spam, I retreated to exim4 on the assumption it would work out of the box. I may well go back to postfix, but right now need to communicate with the world. There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me: ... fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != pop.hartford-hwp.com fetchmail: pop.hartford-hwp.com key fingerprint: 44:B3:8D:19:D1:83:C1:06:95:CB:22:69:73:CE:08:61 fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate ... I assume this "Courier Mail Server" MTA is running on the mail server, but it sends a set of error messages that sounds like it thinks I'm running SSL, which I'm not. I don't know if fetchmail is telling me that pop.hartford-hwp.com is not what it is looking for or if what it is getting is not pop.hartford-hwp.com. Also, while my hostname is "teufel", when I check for aliases: $ hostname -a teufel I get only the hostname. Shouldn't it be something like: localhost.localdoman teufel.hartford-hwp.com My /etc/hosts has: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel I've not touched anything but exim4 and sa-exim. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]