first-time exim

[Odin <djbrosem@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>]

I'm trying to get a sparcstation IPC up using slink, and smail  keeps
giving me a bus error, so I decided I'd try using exim since I heard it
was superior.  I've got a(some) problem(s), though that I was wondering if
anyone else had experienced and could help me with.

First off:

dbroseme@cornus:[~]$ mail -s test dbroseme@localhost
testing
1
2
3
Cc:
dbroseme@cornus:[~]$ ll /var/spool/mail
total 2
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Feb  1 07:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         1024 Mar 10 11:27 ../

Note the conspicuous absence of /var/spool/mail/dbroseme! 

The same happened when II tried to use fetchmail to get mail from a remote
host.  The mail was apparently delivered fine, but mutt can't find it as
there is no /var/spool/mail/dbroseme.

qpopper gives lock errors that I think are related when I try to pop mail
from this machine (hoping it was just in some other location somehow)

here are the non-comment lines in my exim.conf:

qualify_domain = cornus.glfc.forestry.ca
local_domains =
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
never_users = root
host_lookup_nets = 0.0.0.0/0
sender_host_reject_relay = *
trusted_users = mail
smtp_verify = true
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
received_header_text = "Received: \
          ${if def:sender_fullhost {from ${sender_fullhost} \
          ${if def:sender_ident {(${sender_ident})}}\n\t}\
          {${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} }}}}\
          by ${primary_hostname} \
          ${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
          (Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
          id ${message_id}"
end
local_delivery:
  driver = appendfile
  group = mail
  mode = 0660
  mode_fail_narrower = false
  file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
address_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  return_output
address_file:
  driver = appendfile
address_directory:
  driver = appendfile
  no_from_hack
  prefix = ""
  suffix = ""
address_reply:
  driver = autoreply
remote_smtp:
  driver = smtp

end
real_local:
  prefix = real-
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery
system_aliases:
  driver = aliasfile
  file = /etc/aliases
  search_type = lsearch
userforward:
  driver = forwardfile
  no_verify
  check_ancestor
  file = .forward
  modemask = 002
  filter
localuser:
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery

end
lookuphost:
  driver = lookuphost
  transport = remote_smtp
literal:
  driver = ipliteral
  transport = remote_smtp

end
# Domain               Error       Retries
# ------               -----       -------

*                      *           F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h

--END

My appologies if this is horribly simple, but as I said, I know nothing
about exim, and very little about internet mail.  RTFM answers welcome.

-Dano