Re: exim worked; had to upgrade to exim4, which, for me, doesn't work
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:57:13 -0600
p <pplaw@pcisys.net> wrote:
> on january 2, 2007, i replaced an aging hard drive, running debian
> potato. for the 3+ years of running potato, i used mutt (exim and
> fetchmail) to handle email.
>
> ever since (jan. 2, '07), when i upgraded to sarge, i have not been
> able to configure exim4 (correctly), as when i "fetchmail," open
> mutt, and look at the messages in /var/mail/"me", i get the error
> message, "mail delivery failed," for each email.
>
>
> when open an email, i see this refernce to localhost:
>
>
> "the following address(es) failed:
>
> pplaw@localhost
>
> unroutable address"
>
>
> (if i could get it to recognize my email address as:
>
> "pplaw [at] pcisys.net",
>
> instead of as,
>
> "pplaw@localhost",
>
> then i think it would work. that's where i'm stuck.)
>
> my googling "unroutable address" for exim4 entries and reading
> the "exim4-doc-html" file(s) lead me to believe that i may have to
> learn how to write code in order to have a realistic chance of fig-
> uring out how exim4 (version 4.63-17) needs to be setup.
>
> on the other hand, since it's been 8 months, and counting, it
> doesn't look like i'm going to be able to figure out exim4:
>
> 1. is there a way to use mutt and fetchmail without setting up
> exim4? (i pop3 my email from my isp.);
Exim is a MTA. You need one to send mail, but there are many choices,
some much simpler than exim. 'apt-cache search mta'.
Celejar
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