"Ric" == Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ric> Here is an example of a couple of lines from the exim/mainlog Ric> file:
> 2002-11-07 11:21:51 189sDv-0005au-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=otte > (localhost) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=6906 > id=p05111a0ab9f066d9996b@[128.114.181.73] > 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 => ric@otte R=smarthost > T=remote_smtp H=smtp.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35] > 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 Completed As Stephen Gran already pointed out, exim is working just fine. It gets your mail, and promptly mails it off to ric@otte. Some time later (I guess your fetchmail poll period is 10 minutes or so?) you get the mail back, but this time it delivers locally. Since you say that the delivery works when you take out your .procmailrc file I'd suspect your exim set up is okay. Look at the procmail rules very carefully to see that they don't forward. I know very little about your network and domain names, but I notice from the above that your fetchmail script seems to be delivering to "ric@otte" over "here" the first time. Exim sends this off to the smart host, probably because it does not have otte listed as a "local domain." The second time fetchmail is delivering to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and it is working. Probably because you do have otte.ucsc.edu listed as a local domain in exim.conf. You have some very funny interactio between exim (which knows your local domain), fetchmail (which decides your local user name to deliver to) and procmail. Do you have two NIC cards or something? I notice in your next delivery that exim says: H=cats-mx2.ucsc.edu (ucsc.edu) [128.114.129.35] while the first time it was localhost. Frankly, I'm confused.....perhaps you can provide us some more information along these lines? /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]