Re: Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:47:44 -0500
"Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes:
> mail@tomgeorge.info and lists@tomgeorge.info and a Verizion DSL
> connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as
> outgoing .verizon.net and send messages back and forth between the two
> mailboxes. Normally I download the debian-user messages to
> lists@tomgeorge.info with Fetchmail and read them with Mutt nicely
> strung together. I want to send messages or reply to messages from
> Mutt. With dpkg-reconfigure exim4-configure I have:
>
> Chosen not to split the configuration file
> Chosen mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> Set my mail name to tomgeorge.info
> Set IP address to listen to to 127.0.0.1
> Left blank the field for which this machine should consider itself
> the final destination, apart from the local host name (Dragon.Zoo) and
> "localhost"
> Left blank the field for the networks of local machines for which
> you accept to relay mail
> Entered outgoing.verizon.net as the smarthost
> Chose not to hide the local name for outgoing mail
> Did not limit the number of DNS-queries.
>
> With this setup I can apparently send mail from Mutt (it says sent) but
> if I try to test this by sending an email to mail@tomgeorge.info if
> never arrives. There is no error message, no returned mail just a
> confirmation from Mutt that the mail was sent but a Mozilla check for
> mail@tomgeorge.info finds nothing.
>
> Obviously I can send this message with Mozilla as originating from
> lists@tomgeorge.info so I have a means to post messages to the
> debian-user list. The problem is just that if I download and read the
> messages from the debian-user list with fetchmail and mutt I have no way
> to respond to them from mutt to preserve the threading by subject.
> There must be sonething obvious that I have overlooked but I just don't
> see it.
>
> Tom George
>
>
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what does exim4's log say? Run this
#tail /var/mail/exim4/mainlog
right after you send a test message from mutt
Andrei
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