Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

As root, try running eximon and looking at exim's logs in /var/log/exim (as 
I recall) to see if it reports any activity.  The first thing is to figure 
out if the problem is exim or fetchmail.  I use that combination, though I 
recall the setup was a bit tricky.  The exim manual has a section for 
intermittently connected hosts, which is what you want.

At 11:16 AM 12/23/2000 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> I know the combination of fetchmail and exim is discussed frequently, but 
> I don't know if the problem I'm having is similar. What's happening is, if 
> I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, I never see it. The log file 
> shows it getting messages, but they never show up in my mailbox. Exim is 
> running all the time, as a daemon vs in inted.conf.
>
> ~> ps ax | grep exim
>   164 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30
>
> I hate testing this too much, as I'm sure everyone can understand !! ;)
>
> From the fetchmail FAQ, when this happens, it's usually because my MTA 
> isn't setup up correctly. That's where I'll have a problem... I did set 
> it up during installation and I can send mail fine.
>
> Looking at the exim.conf file, the settings for "qualify_recipient" and 
> "local_domains" are the first place I had ideas about. "qualify_recipient" 
> is commented out. "local_domains" looks like this:
>
> local_domains = localhost:mindspring.com:eeyore.homeip.net
>
> I know *I* added the "eeyore.homeip.net" entry, but think that the setup 
> added both "localhost" and "mindspring.com".
>
> I'm off to exim's site now, but any help from here is appreciated !
>
> Thanks in advance
> Hall Stevenson
>
>
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