Re: exim doesn't work both ways
On 2004-04-09, Marty Landman penned:
> Apologies in advance, this has ended up being a very long reply.
>
> At 12:34 PM 4/9/2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
>>Are you actually using the email address dad@delliver ? I believe
>>based on what you've said that you would in fact want to send email to
>>dad@woody.
>
> My lan includes these three machines:
>
> Woody - debian woody Swamisalami - fbsd 3.8 Delliver - win xp
>
> Each of those machines have a dad account and are pingable from the
> other two by the name given - fwiw there are two other boxes on my lan
> but why over complicate things?
>
> My /etc/email-addresses contains one line
>
> dad: marty@ulster.net
>
> 'marty@ulster.net' is my email address through my isp.
>
>
> On Woody I sent emails to dad@[woody,swamisalami,delliver]. These were
> received on Woody and Swamisalami, not on Delliver.
>
> However I got the following sent through my isp on Delliver, sorry for
> the verboseness not sure where it ought to be trimmed.
>
[snip lotsa logs]
Are you running an SMTP server on delliver? If not, there is no way for
a message addressed to dad@delliver to be, um, delivered. You could
find out by telnetting to port 25 on delliver:
telnet delliver 25
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monique
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