RE: exim (II)
Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all
incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I
added an entry to the alias file, and all was well.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:haphazard@socket.net]
> Sent: mmmm102000 5:50 PM
> To: chiappa@centroin.com.br
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: exim (II)
>
> 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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