Re: Penelope builds a kernel

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 17:28:13 EST


James Antill <james@and.org>:
> . User runs fetchmail
> . fetchmail feeds email to exim
> . exim does callback verification, and refuses email.
> . fetchmail pretends it has delivered email, so _even if_ you hack your
> MTA to say don't verify from localhost lost emails will never be
> delivered by fetchmail (even though they are still on the server,
> and fetchmail knew they didn't get sent).

If you tell fetchmail's config about exim's antispam responses
correctly, this should not happen.

I have a lot of happy exim users on my development list. Perhaps
you should try asking questions there?

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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