On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 08:38:22PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Don Strayer wrote:
>
> >
> > The message in exim's rejectlog on the gateway says (lightly edited):
> >
> > 1999-07-13 21:37:05 unqualified sender rejected: <username> \
> > H=system2.sadt.com (system2.sadt.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) [192.168.1.33]
> >
> > The ...in-addr.arpa business looks fishy, but mail accepted from System
> > 1 causes a similar-looking mainlog entry:
> >
> > 1999-07-13 21:29:34 114Dra-0003WK-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > H=system1.sadt.com \
> > (system1.sadt.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) [192.168.1.34] P=smtp S=675 \
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > What is exim trying to tell me?
>
> It is trying to tell you that you either need a mail client that fully
> qualfies the sender as [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR you need to tell exim to
> accept unqualified addresses from certain hosts/networks.
Thanks, that was the hint I needed. I put
sender_unqualified_hosts = system2.sadt.com
in exim.conf and the problem appears to be solved.
The rest of this is non-Debian-related...
I'm still puzzled as to why exim objected to one machine but not the
other, and I'd really prefer to fix the problem at the sender rather
than apply this band-aid. There are probably some people reading this
who remember a few things from the dark days when they were using
Windows. As I go wading into the Windows documentation, would anyone
care to offer advice on convincing Win95 and/or Outlook to identify
themselves with a proper fully qualified address? (I suggest private
email to avoid further cluttering the mailing list.)
Regards,
Don Strayer
