[Pkg-exim4-users] Clarification regarding RCPT TO:

Vivek Varghese Cherian vivekcherian at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 15:07:12 CET 2007


I am using a setup of mutt (version 1.5.9i)+fetchmail (version
6.2.5+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS) and exim4(4.50-8Sarge2) to access my work mail id
vivekc at learning.hifx.net

The whole setup runs on a Debian Sarge machine.

user at hostname:~$ uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
user at hostname:~$

The output of fetchmail -v is provided below.

vivekc at hostname:~$ fetchmail -v
Enter password for vivekc at learning.hifx.net@hifx.net:
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying hifx.net (protocol POP3) at Mon 12 Feb 2007
05:10:17 PM IST: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 lyra [cppop 20.0] at [64.235.230.209]
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< XSENDER
fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION cppop
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER vivekc at learning.hifx.net
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Need a password
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK You have 1 messages totaling 2790 octets from
/home/hifx002/mail/learning.hifx.net/vivekc/inbox (full load)
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2238
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for vivekc at learning.hifx.net at hifx.net (2238 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 552
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2238 octets
reading message vivekc at learning.hifx.net@hifx.net:1 of 1 (552 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220-lyra.lunarpages.com ESMTP Exim 4.52 #1 Mon, 12
Feb 2007 03:40:27 -0800
fetchmail: SMTP< 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to
transport unsolicited,
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-lyra.lunarpages.com Hello localhost [59.93.43.15]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-STARTTLS
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<vivekcherian at gmail.com> SIZE=552
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc at hifx.net>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550-"The recipient cannot be verified.  Please check
all recipients of this
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 message to verify they are valid."
fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 message to verify they are valid."
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `vivekc at hifx.net'
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 hostname.vtc.server ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 12 Feb
2007 17:10:40 +0530
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 hostname.vtc.server Hello vivekc at localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at hostname.vtc.server>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc>
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <vivekc>: recipient address must contain a domain
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 hostname.vtc.server closing connection
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc at hifx.net>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550-"The recipient cannot be verified.  Please check
all recipients of this
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 message to verify they are valid."
fetchmail: can't even send to vivekc!
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset OK
 flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK message 1 will be deleted when you logout
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Bye!
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying hifx.net (protocol POP3) at Mon 12 Feb 2007
05:10:41 PM IST: poll completed
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 lyra.lunarpages.com closing connection
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
vivekc at hostname:~$

The mails are being fetched from the hifx.net mail servers but no local
delivery takes place to my local spool /var/mail/vivekc. The FQDN of my
machine (which is inside the company's LAN) is hostname.vtc.server.

I also noticed that during the SMTP transaction the RCPT TO: field value has
been changed to vivekc at hifx.net instead of vivekc at learning.hifx.net

fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<vivekcherian at gmail.com> SIZE=552
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc at hifx.net>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550-"The recipient cannot be verified.  Please check
all recipients of this
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 message to verify they are valid."
fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 message to verify they are valid."
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `vivekc at hifx.net'


I also notice that later in the output that there is no domain associated
with the recipient address.

fetchmail: SMTP< 220 hostname.vtc.server ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 12 Feb
2007 17:10:40 +0530
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 hostname.vtc.server Hello vivekc at localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at hostname.vtc.server>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc>
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <vivekc>: recipient address must contain a domain
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 hostname.vtc.server closing connection
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<vivekc at hifx.net>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550-"The recipient cannot be verified.  Please check
all recipients of this
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 message to verify they are valid."


This is how my .fetchmailrc file looks like.

# By default, the system-wide fetchmail will output logging messages to
# syslog; uncomment the line below to disable this. This might be useful
# if you are logging to another file using the 'logfile' option.
#
# set no syslog

# Avoid loss on 4xx errors. On the other hand, 5xx errors get more
# dangerous.
#
set no bouncemail

# The following defaults are used when connecting to any server, and can
# be overridden in the server description below.
#
# Set antispam to -1, since it is far safer to use that together with no
# bouncemail.
#
defaults:
  antispam -1
    batchlimit 100

    # Example server section.
    #
    #poll foo.bar.org with protocol pop3
     poll hifx.net with protocol pop3
    #  user baka there is localbaka here smtphost smtp.foo.bar.org;
       user vivekc at learning.hifx.net there is vivekc here smtphost hifx.net;

The pop3 and smtp servers for the domain learning.hifx.net is hifx.net.


I would like to know why

1) The RCPT TO: field value has been changed to vivekc at hifx.net instead of
vivekc at learning.hifx.net

2) Later in the output that there is no domain associated with the recipient
address.

Kindly also let me know if I need to provide any additional information.

-- 
Vivek Varghese Cherian
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