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

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
	-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
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