Re: How do I get exim to work?
look in /var/log/exim/mainlog and paniclog to see if there are any errors.
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> Thanks George,
>
> I nearly got exim to work. But after waisting another 6 hours I do not
> know how further.
>
> I can now receive messages from the ISP into the /var/spool/exim/input
> directory and read them there with emacs. Mail rarely gets through to
> /var/spool/mail/jhspies and when that happens, I cannot tell why the next
> does not do the same.
>
> Nothing was received by procmail although there was a ~/.forward file.
>
> Sometimes it seems as if exim just sends the mail back to the ISP to be
> received again when I dial up again.
>
> I do not understand all the questions of the configuration script and do
> not know what to answer.
>
> After two years of using linux it seems to become more user unfriendly as
> far as setting up mail is concerned.
>
> My .fetchmailrc also have to change for exim but I do not know how. At
> one stage the following setting seemed to work, but not in all cases:
>
> poll alpha.futurenet.co.za protocol pop3:
> no dns
> user jhspies \
> password "xxxxxx"
> # smtphost localhost
> mda "exim -bm %s"
>
> I had to uninstall exim and reinstall smail to send this mail.
>
> Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection
> to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need
> procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I
> cannot get it working for a basic system.
>
> Sorry if I sound a bit grumpy, but I am a bit frustrated. The reason why
> I wanted to try out exim was because I get problems with a "Sender" field
> when I use smail. Some mail servers reject my mail as the following
> message illustrates (irrelevant lines removed):
> ----------------------------
>
> |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
> <9411747@narga.sun.ac.za> ... transport smtp: 550 relaying mail to
> narga.sun.ac.za is not allowed |-------------------------
>
> Sender: jhspies@Johann
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> I have tried to prevent that by the following in my /etc/smail/transports:
>
> smtp: driver=tcpsmtp,
> max_addrs=100, # limit on number of addresses
> -max_chars,
> inet, # use route-addr addresses for routing
> remove_header="Sender";
> use_bind, # resolve MX and multiple A records
> defer_no_connect, # try again if the nameserver is down
> -local_mx_okay, # fail an MX to the local host
> defnames # use standard domain searching
>
> but that obviously did not work.
>
>
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> | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 |
> | jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za 3201 Pietermaritzburg |
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>
> "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God,
> believe also in me." John 14:1
>
>
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