I've been running Linux for almost eighteen months now, and I still don't have a fully-functional MTA. I've been reading through the exim docs, and fooled around a bit, and I now know far more about MTAs and daemons than I ever did before, but I still don't seem to be any closer to solving my problem. Exim's delivering remote mail alright, but for some reason not local mail. Smail (when I was using it) deliviered local mail but not remote. I've just run eximconf again to get exim using a configuration file unsoiled by my clumsy hands, but it still doesn't work.
I have the standard desktop pc which dials to an ISP for internet access. My machine's name is Caliban, my user name ajt and my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] All I want is: * automatic delivery of local mail, mostly to /var/spool/mail/ajt * delivery of fetchmail'd mail to /var/spool/mail/ajt * everything else goes outside with From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'd be very happy. Is this line right from exim.conf? local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz Should Caliban be there also? What happens if I try to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the canonical way to stop and restart exim? There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying "here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up account". Maybe there is already, but I never found it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf script itself. Andrew Tarr "We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned'" -- They Might Be Giants
