RE: exim (II)

[chiappa@centroin.com.br]

Tim,

if localhost is my account in my system, then yes, my ISP username and my 
localhost one are the same. I think I need to solve the problem in the
same way you did. Please, how can I entry to the alias file? is an alias
for what? 
Thank you very much for your help!!

Cheers

Marcelo

On 11-Dec-2000 Anderson, Tim       TL33E wrote:
> 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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