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 <ionut> : 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: <ionut> H=localhost (debian.borco.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut) In /var/log/rejectlog ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected: <ionut> 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 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 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 -0000 Date: 20 May 1998 13:39:03 -0000 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]