Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most definitely explain the error you're describing. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, chiappa@centroin.com.br wrote: > Hello!, > > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate > very much any help regarding this matter! > > 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I receive > still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails > from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: > > myaccount@micro:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount > myISP.com > Enter password for myaccount@myISPcom: (my password) > 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). > reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > > what could be wrong? > > 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the > MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this a > problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. > > 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, goes > to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. > > 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file > /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. This > is normal? > > Again, any help will be very appreciated!! > > Cheers,
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