Re: smail - exim = mail now broken
I fixed my local mail and retrieval of ISP mail. added / changed local domains (were not set properly by eximconfig, probably a type-o by me) that took care of local mail. found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed Still didn't totally fix ISP retrieval, Exim didn't like the address ryder that fetchmail was using, changed .fetchmailrc to say kryder71 is [EMAIL PROTECTED] here , now it works. I think I know how to setup the cron job, but can anyone verify that I know what I am talking about? login as root, edit crontab, resubmit it to cron, that's basic idea, right? Thanks in advance, Ken, who has had a long day fighting with exim, but won, at least for now
Re: smail - exim = mail now broken
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth F. Ryder III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed Errr... your Exim daemon is started with /etc/init.d/exim on bootup, not by a cron job. There exists a cron job to periodically deliver queued mail (in /etc/cron.d/exim), but that doesn't run exim -bd. Ken, who has had a long day fighting with exim, but won, at least for now Hmmm... I found my Smail - Exim upgrade quite painless, despite a lot of trepidation beforehand :} SRH -- Steve HaslamValidation 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]
smail - exim = mail now broken
Hi I am in the middle of setting up my internet mail on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I was using smail set for local mail delivered , and fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP at school. So local mail worked and ISP mail was delivered to me too. In looking through the mailing list archives I got the general feeling that sending mail via SMTP to my school, with smail would not work, because the FROM: header needs to be rewritten from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( local machine) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my internet mail. Most of the archives suggested exim, so I un-installed smail and setup exim, just like smail I ran the config program (eximconfig), and setup for local mail delivered option, figuring that I would start there and work my way up (since that is were I was with smail). Now mail does not work at all. In /var/log/exim/mainlog it says something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unknown mail domain , sending error message to root.. , [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail domain unknown message frozen. Fetchmail seems to be doing its job, forwarding mail to port 25, but exim gets the mail and has no idea what to do with it WHY? I setup exim exactly the same as smail, why does it not deliver? can some one help me get my mail back so I can move forward with getting it to send internet mail? thanks Ken
