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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/08/10 19:00:48 $
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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
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<h2><a name="T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with exim?</a></h2><p>
By default, the exim listener enforces the the RFC1123 requirement
-that MAIL FROM addresses you pass to it have to be canonical
+that MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses you pass to it have to be canonical
(e.g. with a fully qualified hostname part). <p>
-This is a potential problem if the MTAs upstream from your fetchmail
+Fetchmail always passes fully qualified RCPT TO addresses. But
+MAIL FROM is a potential problem if the MTAs upstream from your fetchmail
don't necessarily pass canonicalized From and Return-Path addresses,
and fetchmail's <CODE>rewrite</CODE> option is off. The specific case
where this has come up involves bounce messages generated by sendmail
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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/08/10 19:00:48 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/08/11 20:03:53 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>