From 92d157e0749d24ccbda158ed50aa26c571c7a300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:07:00 +0000 Subject: Fix. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2415 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 49058bab..dd5d1c89 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1999/03/27 15:14:36 $ +$Date: 1999/03/27 16:07:00 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -1034,11 +1034,24 @@ from the local user name.

T3. How can I use fetchmail with exim?

-By default, the exim listener enforces the the RFC1123 requirement -that MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses you pass to it have to be canonical -(e.g. with a fully qualified hostname part).

+If you have rewrite on:

+ +There is an RFC1123 requirement that MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses +you pass to it have to be canonical (e.g. with a fully qualified +hostname part). Therefore fetchmail tries to pass fully qualified +RCPT TO addresses. But exim does not by default accept `localhost' as +a fully qualified domain. This can be fixed.

+ +In exim.conf, add `localhost' to your local_domains declaration if it's not +already present. For example, the author's site at thyrsus.com would +have a line reading:

+ +

+       local_domains = thyrsus.com:localhost
+
+ +If you have rewrite off:

-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 rewrite option is off. The specific case @@ -2280,7 +2293,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1999/03/27 15:14:36 $ +$Date: 1999/03/27 16:07:00 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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