Re: [PLUG] exim4 and local delivery

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I can add a bit to the problem statement.  I'm still very confused.
Basically, mutt writes mail messages to a program (sendmail, linked to
exim4).  If I do what mutt says is its default, exim4 barfs and says
no way, that's not how to call exim4.  So I'm not sure how mutt
normally hands mail off to exim4, since it works normally.  And I'm
not sure what to try to debug.  What is causing the HELO line to be
wrong?

Details:

Mutt writes to a program specified by the "sendmail" variable.  If I
change that to a short shell script that just records its input:

    jeff@astra:~ $ cat mutt-test
    #!/bin/sh
    cat > mutt-test.out
    jeff@astra:~ $

I see perfectly formed mail messages:

    jeff@astra:~ $ cat mutt-test.out
    Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:08 -0400
    From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
    To: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
    Subject: test
    Message-ID: <20050726215808.GA10819@purple.com>
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
    Content-Disposition: inline
    User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i


    --
     Jeff

     Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>    +1 215/837-2287
     GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276  63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B
    jeff@astra:~ $ 

But if I invoke exim4 as mutt claims is its default, no mail is
delivered, for exim4 says that this is not the way to invoke exim4.
Note that I invoke exim4 as root in order to see some debug info.
Invoked as me I get only the last three lines telling me that an MUA
should invoke it.

    astra:/etc/exim4# /usr/sbin/exim4 -oi -oem -d -v < ~jeff/mutt-test.out
    Exim version 4.50 uid=0 gid=0 pid=10914 D=fbb95cfd
    Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
    Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
    Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
    Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
    Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
    Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
    Fixed never_users: 0
    changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
      uid=0 gid=0 pid=10914
      auxiliary group list: <none>
    configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
    log selectors = 00000ffc 00020800
    trusted user
    admin user
    changed uid/gid: privilege not needed
      uid=102 gid=102 pid=10914
      auxiliary group list: <none>
    user name "root" extracted from gecos field "root"
    originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root
    sender address = root@purple.com
    Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
    not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
    what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.
    astra:/etc/exim4# /usr/sbin/exim4 -oi -oem < ~jeff/mutt-test.out
    Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
    not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
    what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.
    astra:/etc/exim4# 

-Jeff


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:06:46PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>   [32 lines, 187 words, 1450 characters]  Top characters: etoi0rns
> 
> I think my mail headers look right, but craigslist doesn't like my
> smtp conversations (see transcript below).
> 
> I tried running exim4 in debug mode, but mutt doesn't go through port
> 25 to send mail (reasonable enough).
> 
> I tried setting (in .muttrc)
> 
>     set sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem -d -v"
> 
> but then mail isn't delivered at all, but I see no error message.  The
> mail isn't delivered, the log shows nothing, not even an attempt.
> 
> I can't find in the man page how to debug the conversation to find out
> what exim is saying.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> Here's the exim4 log of the attempt to send to craigslist.org:
> 
>     2005-07-26 16:57:22 1DxWUM-0002UX-UF <= jeff@purple.com U=jeff P=local S=883 id=20050726205722.GE26089@purple.com
>     2005-07-26 16:57:23 1DxWUM-0002UX-UF ** xxx@craigslist.org R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<xxx@craigslist.org>: host mx3.craigslist.org [130.94.251.51]: 504 <localhost>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname
>     2005-07-26 16:57:23 1DxWUN-0002Ua-F4 <= <> R=1DxWUM-0002UX-UF U=Debian-exim P=local S=1861
>     2005-07-26 16:57:23 1DxWUM-0002UX-UF Completed
>     2005-07-26 16:57:23 1DxWUN-0002Ua-F4 => jeff <jeff@purple.com> R=procmail T=procmail_pipe
>     2005-07-26 16:57:23 1DxWUN-0002Ua-F4 Completed
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>    +1 215/837-2287
>  GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276  63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B

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