Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-10-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:37:34AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Thank you. That fixed HOST1. Still haven't worked out how to be able > With the setting you suggest above... mail from user@HOST2 to > user@HOST1 fails with smtp output: > > > I'm sorry to be so confused about setting this up...

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-10-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Liam O'Toole writes: [...] >> When I try to send a message from USER@HOST2 to USER@HOST1, instead of >> just delivering to USER@HOST1 it appears to be sending that message on >> to the gmail smtp server. >> >> The local lan is not a real FQDN so not suprising that the

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-15, Harry Putnam wrote: > Liam O'Toole writes: > >>> Mail never appears at HOST1 /var/spool/mail/user2 >>> >>> >> >> Does user2 appear in the file /etc/aliases on HOST1? Is there a > No > >> /home/user2/.forward file on that host? Either of

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Liam O'Toole writes: >> Mail never appears at HOST1 /var/spool/mail/user2 >> >> > > Does user2 appear in the file /etc/aliases on HOST1? Is there a No > /home/user2/.forward file on that host? Either of those would cause mail No > Is there anything suspicious in the

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-14, Harry Putnam wrote: > Liam O'Toole writes: > >> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config > > Thanks, that was pretty painless. And thanks for the url to the > documentation section. > > I've now progressed on to where I was aiming for. > > I

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Liam O'Toole writes: > dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Thanks, that was pretty painless. And thanks for the url to the documentation section. I've now progressed on to where I was aiming for. I wanted to have one debian box as main mail client. Yet be able to send

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-13, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've attempted to setup exim4 on a second debian OS, using the > working configuration from the older one. > > Before getting too detailed I think I see something in output of my > debug technique that indicated somewhere my host is telling

exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I've attempted to setup exim4 on a second debian OS, using the working configuration from the older one. Before getting too detailed I think I see something in output of my debug technique that indicated somewhere my host is telling exim the wrong host name. (dv is host with working config ) I