Re: Debian 2.%$#@*&!
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:10:17 -0500 Bryon Roche <kain@cyber-connect.com>
writes:
>On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, maxalbert@juno.com wrote:
>
>> Btw, I've it seems that exim abhors a POP. Even if fetchmail gets
>an
>> incoming message under POP, exim acts like it didn't get through,
>with
>> error messages announcing that the SMTP listener is grievously
>offended.
>> This is inconvenient, since my ISP sends by POP3. After several
>hours of
>> trying various exim configurations, I replaced exim with smail, and
>the
>> problem went away. Still won't do NNTP, however. No news is bad
>news.
>>
>> I attempted to install Netscape4 (4.0-15) from my Debian 2.1 CD,
>using
>> dselect. Setup was unsuccessful. During configuration it says:
>
>Run eximconfig. When it asks you about other names your machine
>appears as, put in localhost.
>
>--
>All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious
>things
>against him, but we never hear his side.
> -- Mark Twain
>**
>Bryon Roche, Kain <elvnhaqr@bigfoot.com>
Thanks, but adding a localhost domain by eximconfig is one of the first
things I tried. It's puzzling, because smail is so similar to exim, and
yet the former works for me, while the latter doesn't-- with the same
basic settings.
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