Re: Fw: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed
bwarsing wrote:
>
> Is that an anti-spam dot in your address? It makes it hard to send you
> mail. Anyway, please let me know if this works.
No, the address really is kent.west@infotech.acu.edu. Does this cause
problems with some email systems? If so, I guess I'll either need to get
a new alias or stop using the alias and just use the real address of
westk@acu.edu.
/etd/init.d/exim was already disabled (not with comments, but with an
"exit 0" near the top of the file).
Pointing me to /etc/inetd.conf allowed me to find the problem. The smtp
line had a "*disabled*" at the start; I just put my curser after the
second * and hit ENTER and saved the file and restarted exim and now
fetchmail works! Yea!
The fetchmail script also works. I tinkered a bit and found that it's
not necessary to have a .fetchmailrc file; it just stores info so you
don't have to feed everything to fetchmail on the command line.
Nonetheless, it makes using fetchmail easier to use.
Thanks very much for your help! My newly setup box is getting closer and
closer to be in full production (if I could just get those extended keys
to work in X - Grr$#%rr*rat-a-sass-a-frassa-#$%@rrr!!!).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bwarsing <bwarsing@intergate.bc.ca>
> To: <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>
> Cc: debian-USER <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed
>
> > From: Kent West
> > > I can send mail from this box to my own account on this box, as well as
> > > to my account on my ISP (university campus). I think I've tried every
> > > permutation on the "qualify_domain" and "local_domains" lines in
> > > exim.conf, but either I haven't hit the right combination or it's got
> > > something to do with other lines in that file (or something completely
> > > different).
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > Hi Kent,
> > I had the same problem. Here is what I did...
> >
> > Set exim.conf with: (BTW, no quotes)
> > 'qualify_domain = my.isp.whatever'
> > -- so that it will attach my proper address upon external mailing
> > 'qualify_recipient = mycomputername'
> > -- to let exim know that unqualified recipient names should be local
> > 'local_domains = mycomputername'
> > -- so that I can send mail internally to different users
> > 'local_domains_include_host = true'
> > 'local_domains_include_host_literals = true'
> > -- so that exim allows mail to be delivered internally via any of the
> above
> > hosts
> > If you generated your exim.conf via 'eximconfig' for dialup users, the
> rest
> > of the configuration should do just fine. The next step is...
> > Disable the 'exim' file in your /etc/init.d by opening the file and
> > commenting out the lines with '#', naturally...
> > Set exim to run as a daemon from /etc/inetd.conf by editing my MAIL
> category
> > to look like this...
> > #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> > #<off>#uucp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.uucpd
> > smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/exim /usr/sbin/exim -bd
> >
> > Now... as for fetchmail...
> > run the attached little script as root to generate yourself a
> '.fetchmailrc'
> > Don't bother with 'fetchmailconf' it just makes a mess of things if you
> > don't know how to use it. I guess that goes for me too.
> > By default the script will set your 'mda' to be 'procmail'. This must be
> > tweaked to read:
> > mda "/usr/sbin/exim -odb root"
> > For test purposes, I would suggest not using the option 'fetchall' until
> you
> > are certain that you have it working otherwise you may destroy any mail
> that
> > you have in your mailbox. Always test before you 'fetchall'. Read the
> docs
> > for fetchmail to find out about any further options you think you might
> > want.
> > Good Luck,
> > brian.
> >
> >
>
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