Re: Exim and mail

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Richard Clarke" <clarker8@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to
> use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user.
> However I am having problems getting it to work.
> 
> I chose,
> (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a network.  Mail for local users
>      is delivered.
> 
> I can mail to localusers just find using, mail. However if I try and do,
> fetchmail -u username t8.cs.man.ac.uk
> 
> reading message 1 of 5 (1386 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to
> localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from t8.cs.man.ac.uk
> fetchmail: Query status=10

You need to add localhost to a list in /etc/exim.conf, specifically
the "local_domains" line.

It should look something like:

local_domains = hostname:hostname.junk.org:localhost

This should fix you up.

Gary