Re: [Help! Fetchmail broke]
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:28:36PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote:
> Steve Gore <srgore@netscape.net> wrote:
> > Sigh...
> > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via
> > dselect)...
>
> Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's
> configs. Fetchmail worked. Then I reinstalled exim (but left smail's configs
> in place), and fetchmail still worked. I then purged smail's configs, and
> fetchmail BROKE.
>
> Could someone please explain why I need smail config files to use fetchmail
> with exim?
I have no idea what smail's old config-files would have to do with it.
But as far as your problem, make sure that the "local_domains" entry in
/etc/exim.conf specifically includes "localhost" (it's not included in
the default configuration).
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