Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:13:45AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:05:56PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
>
> > Well, the line number that I pointed at tells how to make exim point at a
> > smarthost. It looked like the smartuser director might be able to do it, but
> > it looked more like whatever was near line 11900 would do it better. :)
>
> I'm concerned that it wouldn't even get to the smarthost - it would
> think "this is a local address, I should be able to deliver it" and then
> find it can't and bounce before ever trying a smarthost.
D'oh! Upon looking again, I think you are right. Good thing the original
poster fixed his problem, huh? :)
> > detail, and yet .. even though I have read them through completely a few
> > times, I still feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data they contain. It
> > has to be one of the few programs well documented. :)
>
> I find the trick is to remember the big picture and look up those
> specifics that aren't memorable.
Keeping vi's '/' handy helps too. :)
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