Re: fetchmail crashes

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Tadeusz Bak <T.Bak@unsw.edu.au> writes:

> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Fetchmail has been crashing on me recently.  The error is:
> > 
> > 
> > fetchmail: reading message 11 of 120 (2244 bytes) . (log message incomplete)
> > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au> : colon expected after 
> > route
> > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <mark> : sender address must contain a domain
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from adam.ist.flinders.edu.au
> > 
> 
> I observe exactly the same in my system from time to time. I have 
> Debian 2.0 (hamm) with fetchmail 4.3.9-1 and exim 2.05-1. Unfortunately I
> have no idea how to fix it.
> 

I had similar problems a while ago, and when I asked here, I was
advised to add the following to my /etc/exim.conf:

   sender_unqualified_hosts = my.domain.com

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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org