In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>First the date.  My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is
>wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

So, you're receving mail addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or
possibly "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Or do you only ever use one address for mail?

>If I follow the eximconfig instructions, option 2. I get the following
>
>qualify_domain = ix.netcom.com
>local_domains = ix.netcom.com
>and the correct smarthost section.
>
>No mail is received with the above.  Fetchmail won't get the mail and
>replies with something like "can't accept mail to localhost, no wtopa
>@ localhost". 

I think you want to set

local_domains = ix.netcom.com:localhost

This makes Exim consider mail addresed in either of these domains as
local.

If you do:

local_domains = ix.netcom.com:localhost:mtntop.home

you can receive mail at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" too.

>to REWRITE CONFIGURATION
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]       [EMAIL PROTECTED]  frs (As per a post to
>this list)  

That's probably a good plan.

>Attempts to send mail give the following log entries:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-32): retry time not reached
>1999-03-05 11:56:55 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 == debian-user@lists.debian.org
>routing defer (-32): retry time not reached
>
>1999-03-05 11:55:41 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=wtopa
>P=local S=847
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:55:41
>10Ixsz-0000JN-00 ==
>debian-user@lists.debian.org R=smarthost defer (-1):
>
>These log entries were after an exim -q as root. 

exim -qf will override retry times istr.

>So my questions are :  
>Is the eximconfig script setting exim up for anyone else?  

It worked for me, although it wouldn't cope with setting up mail for
my local "sinshack" domain.

But I don't use fetchmail, I use SMTP to transfer mail, and this means
I didn't need to local_domains+=localhost.

In fact, I only discovered that mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work
when I tried it while writing this answer ;). Try doing "exim -d 9 -bt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to ensure these
addresses are acceptable. (and going to the right place :})

>I have removed the 30m from the init.d/exim scripts as I cron for mail
>twice an hour, is this OK?

Hmmm I run "exim -ql" from /etc/cron.d/exim, and don't start exim
-q30m... but then /etc/init.d/exim is disabled for me anyway since I
start exim from inetd.conf.

>Any suggestions or flames appreciated.
>
>
>TIA
>
>Wayne

HTH

SRH
-- 
Steve Haslam            Validation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England
almost called it today, turned to face the void along with the suffering
and the question- "Why am I?"                                  [queensrÿche]

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