Re: [solved] exim4 config (?)

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:21:50 +0100
William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > William Pursell <bill.pursell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at
> >> all when I run mailx.  I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp
> >> smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only
> >> reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in
> >> update-exim4.conf.conf (via grep -iRe 'gmail\|google' *)
> >> Surely the only affect that
> >> file has is on execution of dpkg-reconfigure, no?
> > 
> > If you did set up GMail for smarthost, and are having
> > trouble with that, this might help:
> > 
> > http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
> > 
> > I say this because you seem to have added "a" line to
> > passwd.client, while you may need 3. But if this is
> > not the issue, then I don't get your question correctly.
> 
> Thanks for the link, and thanks to all who responded.  It
> turns out the problem is not my configuration.  The tests
> are indeed going to my google account, but were NOT
> being popped.  I checked the web interface, thinking
> to look through the spam box, and they
> were sitting there in my inbox!  I'm not sure why
> those messages aren't getting popped, since everything
> else was.  I did initially have an authentication
> issue, as mails were getting returned to me in
> /var/mail, but I believe the link above enabled me
> to fix that.

A common Gmail gotcha is that it doesn't pop mail with your own 'from'
address; that's why we who post to d-u via Gmail don't see our own
messages.  If your test messages were sent via Gmail, perhaps that's
the problem.

Celejar
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