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]
