exim configuration problem. why is it doing this?
I run a small home LAN. Two Debian Woodies, and two Macintoshes. One
of the Woodies acts as a community link to the Internet via ppp, and
diald. Both Woodies are default installations, which have exim
installed, and configured with option 2.
My problem is that every 15 minutes, the modem becomes active, the ppp
connection is established and held up for 30 to 60 s and then dropped.
I have traced this to exim, by the simple expedient of deinstalling
various packages until the dialing stopped. I don't want dialing every
15 minutes. Why is it happening? I have not queued any outing email.
Anyway, exim is configured to dial out immediately when an email is
sent from a MUA. So there can't be a queue of messages waiting to go
out. And, no one on the outside knows what my internal IP addresses
are, so no one can be sending me mail. So what is going on?
If the answer is too long for this list, please point me to it. I'm
puzzled.
paul
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Paul E Condon
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