Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:45:06PM -0800, scott worley wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I seem to be one of those people you can't understand unix e-mail
| configuration no matter how much I read, books, HOW-TO's etc.
|
| Trying to setup fetchmail & exim.
...
| for exim all i did was add:
| smarthost:
...
| When fetchmail is executed I get a rejection error message from exim
| which has
| ...reject relay (host) ...
|
| Does exim think I'm trying to use it as a relay host?
Yeah, I think so. Running fetchmail with "-v -v" will tell more (yes,
that's two -v options).
| Most confusing is how should the incoming/outgoing filtering/header
| rewrite be done? I'm looking for a good example of exim configuration
| for simple case of having localuser@localhost able to send/receive local
| mail and be able to send/receive mail from stupidname@isp.net.
You want to configure local delivery as well. The 'eximconfig'
program will do this for you, if the you answer the questions
correctly.
You want to pick (2) for the first question, and the answers for the
rest are given in the archives (posts from me).
(time for bed now)
-D
--
A violent man entices his neighbor
and leads him down a path that is not good.
Proverbs 16:29
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