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From: Haines Brown on 24 Dec 2007 19:10
I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups.

In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed
up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded messages were
deleted as spam, and as I fiddled, fetchmail could not download messages
because the mail server did not like the information it received (SMTP
error: 550 Administrative prohibition), and now fetchmail does not even
see any messages.

I'm running debian etch. Doing # exim4 -d did not reveal anything
meaninfful to me. When all mail was rejected as spam, my exim4 reject
log had entries, but now no more.

Here is my exim4 configuration:

# It sounds like I should change it to true to get exim4 to use
# sa-exim:
local_scan_path='true'

# 2007april: I reduced dc_other_hostnames to just my FQDN
# I changed dc_local_interfaces='' to
# dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='hartford-hwp.com'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='hartford-hwp.com'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''

# 2007oct27: Web.com servers went SSL, and so I had to change smtp server
# name to first line, which is a link. Link could be broken, so change to
# hanme of link target. I tried but failed to revert from target to link.
# dc_smarthost='smtp.hartford-hwp.com'
dc_smarthost='mymail.myregisteredsite.com'

I'm not sure where to start.

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From: Uwe Dippel on 24 Dec 2007 22:20
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

> I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups.
>
> In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed
> up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded messages were
> deleted as spam, and as I fiddled, fetchmail could not download messages
> because the mail server did not like the information it received (SMTP
> error: 550 Administrative prohibition), and now fetchmail does not even
> see any messages.

This isn't all too helpful, I know. Exim in Debian is a political
decision; due to licensing. The first thing I always do to any Debian-box
is installing Postfix.
Not that I had anything against Exim, only at installing Debian, it would
offer several alternatives of configuring Exim that I, as a professional,
couldn't understand. That's useless software for you. My 2 sen.



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From: Haines Brown on 25 Dec 2007 08:00
Uwe Dippel <udippel(a)uniten.edu.my> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
>
>> I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups.
>>
>> In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed
>> up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded messages were
>> deleted as spam, and as I fiddled, fetchmail could not download messages
>> because the mail server did not like the information it received (SMTP
>> error: 550 Administrative prohibition), and now fetchmail does not even
>> see any messages.
>
> This isn't all too helpful, I know. Exim in Debian is a political
> decision; due to licensing. The first thing I always do to any Debian-box
> is installing Postfix.
> Not that I had anything against Exim, only at installing Debian, it would
> offer several alternatives of configuring Exim that I, as a professional,
> couldn't understand. That's useless software for you. My 2 sen.

Thanks, Uwe. In fact, I used to run postfix, but when things got too
complicated for me in trying to reject spam, I retreated to exim4 on the
assumption it would work out of the box. I may well go back to postfix,
but right now need to communicate with the world.

There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being
authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me:
...
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server
fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost
fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost
fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != pop.hartford-hwp.com
fetchmail: pop.hartford-hwp.com key fingerprint:
44:B3:8D:19:D1:83:C1:06:95:CB:22:69:73:CE:08:61
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
...

I assume this "Courier Mail Server" MTA is running on the mail server,
but it sends a set of error messages that sounds like it thinks I'm
running SSL, which I'm not. I don't know if fetchmail is telling me that
pop.hartford-hwp.com is not what it is looking for or if what it is
getting is not pop.hartford-hwp.com.

Also, while my hostname is "teufel", when I check for aliases:

$ hostname -a
teufel

I get only the hostname. Shouldn't it be something like:
localhost.localdoman teufel.hartford-hwp.com

My /etc/hosts has:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel

I've not touched anything but exim4 and sa-exim.

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From: John Hasler on 25 Dec 2007 08:50
Uwe Dippel writes:
> Exim in Debian is a political decision; due to licensing.

Not true.
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From: Uwe Dippel on 25 Dec 2007 08:50
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:50:01 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

> There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being
> authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me:
> ...
> fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server
> fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost
> fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost
> fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != pop.hartford-hwp.com
> fetchmail: pop.hartford-hwp.com key fingerprint:
> 44:B3:8D:19:D1:83:C1:06:95:CB:22:69:73:CE:08:61
> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate

Okay, but this has nothing to do with Exim. Fetchmail doesn't touch it
here. You'd better off with a fetchmail/courier mailing list, eventually,
respectively Google.
I tried for you, "fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost" and
got some promising results, like
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014043.html

I guess,
ping teufel
will show a proper resolution by your /etc/hosts.

Uwe



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