Re: Re: Re: simple exim configuration
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:45:52AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> From: Simo PW Kauppi [mailto:swk@nic.fi]
> Sent: 9/3/2005 2:20:56 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Re: simple exim configuration
>
> > The is value should be your local username i.e. in your case I guess
> > 'paul' in all three accounts (if you want all three accounts to deliver
> > mail to user 'paul').
>
> done. This allowed me to send a message to paslist which is not currently being read by fetchmail but messages to waterhorse or pslist are frozen along with many others.
> >
> > > >
> > > > I guess the main problem here is the name of your machine.
> > >
> > > /etc/mailname is blank. Do you mean that I should use mail.ultrasw.com ?
> >
> > No, the /etc/mailname is used to resolve the domain part of the email
> > address. If you send mail to e.g. paul (without any @something), then
> > whatever is in your /etc/mailname is appended to the username with @.
>
> So my machine name is 'joy'. Is that what I should use?
It should be the Fully Qualified Domain Name, i.e. something.ultrasw.com
Like I said the problem here is that since you are probably using a
dynamic IP, your FQDN also changes when you get a different IP.
That's why I suggested you try to put 'localhost' in there. The problem
with this might be that your ISP's mail.ultrasw.com does not accept it,
but you can verify that from the exim logfile.
> > > > See also the question G11 in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html.
> > >
> >
> > It describes the problem about the name resolving. I.e. when your exim
> > sends the mail to the smarthost, it must tell the smarthost where the
> > connection is coming from. More often than not, the name must match the
> > the name which the smarthost gets when doing the reverse DNS.
>
> How do I know what that would be? ultrasw.com ?
Try nslookup your.ip.address or traceroute your.ip.address
> > I'm not sure, but I think the exim uses the /etc/mailname to tell the
> > smarthost where the mail is coming from.
> >
> > In exim4-config the /etc/mailname is called visible_name (if I recall
> > correctly).
>
> That's not in any of my exim4 config files except:
> conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:.ifndef DC_visiblename
> conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:DC_visiblename=DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF
> conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:.ifdef DC_visiblename
> conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:qualify_domain = DC_visiblename
It seems to be called System mail name in the dpkg-reconfigure
exim4-config -dialog.
> > After fixing the is-parameters, you could try to set the visible_name to
> > 'localhost' and check the exim log for the results.
>
> Since I am using dpkg-reconfigure where would I change this without interfering with debconf?
>
> I have learned about eximon and I have a large number of frozen messages. Can I free them up without losing them?
I'm sure you can. They should be purged automatically when the setup is
fixed. There seems to be an old thread concerning this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/03/msg00402.html
> I found /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz and learned to set /etc/email-addresses. Now I can send myself test messages at both addresses that fetchmail is currently reading!!!!! I have also just sent a test message to another list I am subscribed to!!!!!
>
> Now I just need to be able to set the 'From:' address in mutt so I can sent messages to lists that need the from address to be different than waterhorse.
I use:
set edit_headers
my_hdr From: Me Myself <me.myself@somewhere.com>
> Thank you so much for your patience,
>
> Paul
Simo
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