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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:59:10AM +0530, Vivek Varghese Cherian  wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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: SMTP< 220-lyra.lunarpages.com ESMTP Exim 4.52 #1 Mon, 12
> Feb 2007 03:40:27 -0800

This looks to me that your fetchmail is polling from lyra and the
continues to deliver back to lyra. As you say, your local host has
exim 4.50, while the SMTP server your fetchmail is talking to has exim
4.52.

> The mails are being fetched from the hifx.net mail servers but no
> local delivery takes place to my local

Yes, it does not look like your local mail server is even involved.

Can you telnet to 127.0.0.1 port 25 and say what's the banner of the
local daemon?

> 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.

The SMTP server your fetchmail talks to is most definetely not running
the exim4 packages that come with Debian sarge.

> 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.

So you need to set up your fetchmail to deliver to 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

That looks like an issue with your fetchmail daemon or the POP server.

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

That looks like an issue with your fetchmail daemon or the POP server.

Greetings
Marc

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