Neal McBurnett wrote:
This probably means you have an mda option. Your MDA is croaking
while being passed a message. Best fix is to remove the mda option
and pass mail to your port 25 SMTP listener.
But sometimes that fix is not appropropriate (e.g. because I'm
avoiding a listener on port 25 for security or lack-of-permission
reasons).
Does Eric STILL think that it's appropriate for everyone's machine to
be listening on port 25??
A long time ago Eric removed the mda option, and I managed to persuade
him to put it back... but the reason that convinced him (something
about dialup SLIP users, as I recall) was not actually the best reason
I gave, and other reasons remain more important today. (Actually
there's a paragraph in CatB that's a direct result of this argument I
had with him. :-)
I'd suggest adding:
For those times when using an mda is appropriate, if you're using
sendmail, the "-i" option to sendmail is important.
or something along those lines. The reason to call out sendmail's
'-i' here is because it hasn't been noted in the fetchmail man page
advice until now, so it is a more frequent problem.
Yes, definitely add this...
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