Re: exim

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:06:58AM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> Please note that I am not a network expert, so what I write might be
> wrong.
> 
> > with the help of people in this list finally I have a
> > exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working.
> 
> Does the multiple SMTP-server configuration work?
> 
> > The problem is that after dialing to my ISP and invoking fetchmail
> > at the prompt, it reports the number of emails in the ISP box, but
> > can't fetch them. I have to type "exim -bd" as root for fetchmail
> > retrieve the messages.  Is this normal?
> 
> This is strange indeed.  inetd, which should be launched at startup
> (/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd), should run exim whenever a connection on its
> socket (25) is found (check out the inetd and inetd.conf manpages).
> AFAIK everything should be configured correctly by default.
> 
> Have a look at your /etc/inetd.conf, here is the MAIL-part of mine:
> 
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  mail    /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
> nntp            stream  tcp     nowait  news    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/leafnode
> 
> You might try if sending mail locally works by sending a message to
> your own user account (just type `mail your-user-name', enter some
> subject, the message body and finish it off by pressing Ctrl-D)
> 
> You could check out the logfiles, especially /var/log/exim/mainlog
> 
> Perhaps running inetd in debugging mode (-d) could yield some hints?
or try tunning it in daemon mode (disable it in inetd.conf, possibly
need to remove it completely, edit some file in /etc/exim (dunno exact
name, just look for a small one, else read
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian, guess it's explained there).

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