Re: fetchmail & exim on a ppp dialup
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On Sunday 16 December 2001 4:49 am, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have a newly installed Potato host. I have installed and configured
> fetchmail and exim as best I understand.
> Email is not coming through to the mail file /var/mail/pecondon as I think
> it should. What can I do to debug?
> What information is needed by people who might give me advice?
>
You have a train of activity - any of which may not be working. Take a look
at /var/log/mail.info (or others with similar names) to see if fetchmail is
doing its stuff - look at /var/log/exim/mainlog to see what exim is doing.
This latter log also tells you which directors and transports exim has used
for its mail messages which will tell you where it should have delivered the
message (/etc/exim/exim.conf is worth a read too)
Be clear in your own mind what domain names you consider local - fetchmail
(unless you tell it otherwise) passes all mail onto exim as though it came
from local host (eg mail for me is sent to exim as alan@localhost) so make
sure the exim.conf file recognises localhost as a valid local domain name.
- --
Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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