Re: smail is not working (MY USERS ARE GOING TO KILL ME)

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "EB" == Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk> writes:

EB> I go on the net (ppp) static IP address, loads of e-mail comes in from my
EB> ISP by SMTP. smail does not deliever it, you have to run, runq, that does
EB> not work most of the time. it has not been delievering outgoing mails they
EB> just sit in the spool directory, why?

There are logfiles in /var/log/smail which should tell you why some action 
couldn't be performed.

EB> I used option 3 in the config scripts smarthost - which i set to my ISPs
EB> post server.

Try Option 1 (Internet site).

BTW: Don't be afraid about the lusers, *you* are the bofh!
     http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/stuff/bofh/ 
     "What does rm -Rf /home do again ... whoops"

Ciao,
	Mar"What was your username again"tin


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