Re: Qmail to Exim woes
In article <[🔎] 19990305130109.A242@ix.netcom.com>, <wtopa@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is
>wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be
>wtopa@ix.netcom.com.
So, you're receving mail addressed to "wtopa@ix.netcom.com", or
possibly "wxtopa@mtntop.home"? Or do you only ever use one address for mail?
>If I follow the eximconfig instructions, option 2. I get the following
>
>qualify_domain = ix.netcom.com
>local_domains = ix.netcom.com
>and the correct smarthost section.
>
>No mail is received with the above. Fetchmail won't get the mail and
>replies with something like "can't accept mail to localhost, no wtopa
>@ localhost".
I think you want to set
local_domains = ix.netcom.com:localhost
This makes Exim consider mail addresed in either of these domains as
local.
If you do:
local_domains = ix.netcom.com:localhost:mtntop.home
you can receive mail at "wtopa@mtntop.home" too.
>to REWRITE CONFIGURATION
>
>wtopa@mtntop.home wtopa@ix.netcom.com frs (As per a post to
>this list)
That's probably a good plan.
>Attempts to send mail give the following log entries:
>wtopa@ix.netcom.com routing defer (-32): retry time not reached
>1999-03-05 11:56:55 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 == debian-user@lists.debian.org
>routing defer (-32): retry time not reached
>
>1999-03-05 11:55:41 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 <= wtopa@mtntop.home U=wtopa
>P=local S=847
>id=19990305115539.B951@ix.netcom.com1999-03-05 11:55:41
>10Ixsz-0000JN-00 ==
>debian-user@lists.debian.org R=smarthost defer (-1):
>
>These log entries were after an exim -q as root.
exim -qf will override retry times istr.
>So my questions are :
>Is the eximconfig script setting exim up for anyone else?
It worked for me, although it wouldn't cope with setting up mail for
my local "sinshack" domain.
But I don't use fetchmail, I use SMTP to transfer mail, and this means
I didn't need to local_domains+=localhost.
In fact, I only discovered that mailing steve@localhost won't work
when I tried it while writing this answer ;). Try doing "exim -d 9 -bt
wtopa@localhost wtopa@mtntop.home wtopa@ix.netcom.com" to ensure these
addresses are acceptable. (and going to the right place :})
>I have removed the 30m from the init.d/exim scripts as I cron for mail
>twice an hour, is this OK?
Hmmm I run "exim -ql" from /etc/cron.d/exim, and don't start exim
-q30m... but then /etc/init.d/exim is disabled for me anyway since I
start exim from inetd.conf.
>Any suggestions or flames appreciated.
>
>
>TIA
>
>Wayne
HTH
SRH
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