On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:57:13 -0600 p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on january 2, 2007, i replaced an aging hard drive, running debian > potato. for the 3+ years of running potato, i used mutt (exim and > fetchmail) to handle email. > > ever since (jan. 2, '07), when i upgraded to sarge, i have not been > able to configure exim4 (correctly), as when i "fetchmail," open > mutt, and look at the messages in /var/mail/"me", i get the error > message, "mail delivery failed," for each email. > > > when open an email, i see this refernce to localhost: > > > "the following address(es) failed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > unroutable address" > > > (if i could get it to recognize my email address as: > > "pplaw [at] pcisys.net", > > instead of as, > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > > then i think it would work. that's where i'm stuck.) > > my googling "unroutable address" for exim4 entries and reading > the "exim4-doc-html" file(s) lead me to believe that i may have to > learn how to write code in order to have a realistic chance of fig- > uring out how exim4 (version 4.63-17) needs to be setup. > > on the other hand, since it's been 8 months, and counting, it > doesn't look like i'm going to be able to figure out exim4: > > 1. is there a way to use mutt and fetchmail without setting up > exim4? (i pop3 my email from my isp.);
Exim is a MTA. You need one to send mail, but there are many choices, some much simpler than exim. 'apt-cache search mta'. 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]
