If they are the same then you don't have the issue I'm talking about. When fetchmail gets some mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gives it to exim, which tries to deliver to the logon name in the email's TO header. So it tries to find somebody called yourisplogon on your local machine (ie, localhost). My problem was that my ISP name (tka104) and my local name (seal) were different - exim tried to find tka104, failed, and bounced the whole lot back! So I aliased tka104 to seal, and the tka104 part got resolved. So you can safely ignore all this, because your names are the same. (but check for case)
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mmmm112000 4:18 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: exim (II) > > Tim, > > if localhost is my account in my system, then yes, my ISP username and my > localhost one are the same. I think I need to solve the problem in the > same way you did. Please, how can I entry to the alias file? is an alias > for what? > Thank you very much for your help!! > > Cheers > > Marcelo > > On 11-Dec-2000 Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > > Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all > > incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I > > added an entry to the alias file, and all was well. > > > > Tim > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: mmmm102000 5:50 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> Subject: Re: exim (II) > >> > >> Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? > >> If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most > >> definitely explain the error you're describing. > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> wrote: > >> > Hello!, > >> > > >> > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make > >> > exim > >> > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will > >> > appreciate > >> > very much any help regarding this matter! > >> > > >> > 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I > >> receive > >> > still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails > >> > from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: > >> > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount > >> > myISP.com > >> > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) > >> > 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). > >> > reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to > >> > localhost > >> > failed > >> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com > >> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > >> > > >> > what could be wrong? > >> > > >> > 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the > >> > MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this > >> > a > >> > problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. > >> > > >> > 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, > >> goes > >> > to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. > >> > > >> > 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file > >> > /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. > >> This > >> > is normal? > >> > > >> > Again, any help will be very appreciated!! > >> > > >> > Cheers, > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 11-Dec-2000 > Time: 19:08:00 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ----------------------------------