On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:21:50 +0100 William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > William Pursell <bill.pursell <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at > >> all when I run mailx. I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp > >> smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only > >> reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in > >> update-exim4.conf.conf (via grep -iRe 'gmail\|google' *) > >> Surely the only affect that > >> file has is on execution of dpkg-reconfigure, no? > > > > If you did set up GMail for smarthost, and are having > > trouble with that, this might help: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 > > > > I say this because you seem to have added "a" line to > > passwd.client, while you may need 3. But if this is > > not the issue, then I don't get your question correctly. > > Thanks for the link, and thanks to all who responded. It > turns out the problem is not my configuration. The tests > are indeed going to my google account, but were NOT > being popped. I checked the web interface, thinking > to look through the spam box, and they > were sitting there in my inbox! I'm not sure why > those messages aren't getting popped, since everything > else was. I did initially have an authentication > issue, as mails were getting returned to me in > /var/mail, but I believe the link above enabled me > to fix that. A common Gmail gotcha is that it doesn't pop mail with your own 'from' address; that's why we who post to d-u via Gmail don't see our own messages. If your test messages were sent via Gmail, perhaps that's the problem. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]