On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:30:04AM +0200 or thereabouts, Lubos Vrbka wrote: <snip> Hi Lubos: > >> i dpkg-reconfigured exim4-config and selected the option 'mail sent by > >> smarthost; no local mail' because it's exactly what i need, i think. > > Not so sure about that. Wouldn't local mail be stuff sent to the root > > account etc. ? In any event I don't think it'll hurt to enable this > > option, as I have it enabled in my Exim4 configuration -- I'm using > > smarthost as well. > i got an impression from the docs that this shouldn't influence root and > postman mail... I quite possibly could be wrong here, but I have always assumed that for local delivery, an SMTP agent was required. The reason I say this, is when Exim wasn't working, I'd have e-mails from CRON, for root and other accounts, frozen in Exim's mailq. > > Not sure. Is the e-mail actually being sent ? Does your smarthost > > have a web front end to view e-mails ? > yes, the mail is sent correctly, i was able to get it from the server i > sent it to... OK > > See above. Enable local delivery and to see if it makes a difference. > > I'm not exactly sure what your problem is; Are you saying it doesn't > > work or that you're not sure if it's working ? > the problem is that i don't know whether TLS is enabled or not. since my > computer and the smarthost are on the same network, the administrator of > the mailserver doesn't require us to use TLS, however i'd like to use it > anyway... OIC I'm afraid I can't help much there. When I was setting mine up to work with GMail as Smarthost, I knew it was working when I was able to send through GMail. -- Regards Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A morgue is a morgue is a morgue. They can paint the walls with aggressively cheerful primary colors and splashy bold graphics, but it's still a holding place for the dead until they can be parted out to organ banks. Not that I would have cared normally but my viewpoint was skewed. The relentless pleasance of the room I sat in seemed only grotesque. -- Pat Cadigan, "Mindplayers" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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