Re: Newbie comments & queries
Hi,
Almost there!
I did a complete reinstall.
Setserial reports data in conformity with the hardware setting and
/etc/serial.conf has the correct entries.
Minicom communicates with the modem through /dev/ttyS1 fine.
I have wvdial operational and it connects ppp as I can do 'dig' on
imaginet and get results back.
~/.fetchmailrc was edited by hand as per email from dman and permission
set at 600 and I own it
I have edited resolv.conf to show correct primary and secondary DNS
nameservers as per Brenda's email 11/12/01
nameserver 196.15.145.5
nameserver 196.15.145.7
/etc/host.conf also inconformity with Brendas email same date as is
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc hosts shows just me per brenda's email 12/12/01
127.0.0.1 hephaestus localhost
I am a member of the groups dialout, dip, staff
> If you run exim from the shell and enter a message, does it get
> delivered? For example :
>
> $ exim fables@imaginet.co.za
> From: me <myaddr@myhost>
> Subject: test message
>
> yo, can I see this?
> ^D
No, exim generates a message but it does not get delivered. From
/var/log/exim we find
time/msg no.... imaginet.co.za [196.15.145.8]: Connection refused
time/msg no.... imaginet.co.za [196.15.145.5]: Connection refused
time/msg no.... == fables@imaginet.co.za T=remote_smtp defer (111):
Connection refused
Now my primary and secondary dns addresses are in /etc/resov.conf as
nameserver 196.15.145.5
nameserver 196.15.145.7
so where the 196.15.145.8 comes from I do not know.
In my Win98 setup the pop3 and smtp host is set as imail.imaginet.co.za which dig shows as 196.15.145.6 . I do not seem to have this set anywhere. Should this not be?
I saw in the exim documentation that it either runs at start up from
initd (something like that) or can run as a daemon. What is the
difference, and what should I do. I do not see it listed on the boot up
messages at all, and cannot see it listed in top so it is not running as
far as I can see.
I suppose the sequence of events should be:
Dial up and see ppp negotiation.
$ fetchmail
exim is running and will kick in to send mail when imaginet appears on
the network
fetchmail seems to want something else on the command line. If I do
$ fetchmail imaginet.co.za
then it wants password for root@imaginet.co.za -- which is obviously not
correct. I try it with hephaestus and put in my root password, but this
is not the solution. In any case the passwords have already been dealt
with at ppp negotiation stage - right?
Next step?
Regards
Ian
Ian Balchin
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