Hi, I looked carefully and noticed that I have both a /etc/exim.conf~ and a /etc/exim/exim.conf. In the first file (conf~) I had the lines: qualify_domain = otte local_domains = localhost:otte which probably says my localhost is otte, instead of otte.ucsc.edu. It was not like this in /etc/exim/exim.conf, where I had: qualify_domain = otte.ucsc.edu local_domains = localhost:otte.ucsc.edu (I suspect the .conf~ file is a backup that didn't get removed). So I removed /etc/exim.conf~,and restarted the machine. I've noticed that the mail messages still are mentioned twice in the log file. For example, here is a mail message from myself that is mentioned twice:
2002-11-08 08:47:06 18ACHh-0000Gb-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=otte (localhost) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=1214 id=20021108164942.GE262@perelandra 2002-11-08 08:47:06 18ACHh-0000Gb-00 => ric@otte R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=smtp.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35] 2002-11-08 08:47:06 18ACHh-0000Gb-00 Completed 2002-11-08 08:47:16 18ACHs-0000Gi-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=cats-mx2.ucsc.edu (ucsc.edu) [128.114.129.35] P=esmtp S=1628 id=20021108164942.GE262@perelandra 2002-11-08 08:47:16 18ACHs-0000Gi-00 => ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe 2002-11-08 08:47:16 18ACHs-0000Gi-00 Completed I then fetched the exact same message from my home machine (which works fine) and noticed the log file deals with the message once: 2002-11-08 09:13:29 18AChF-0000eM-00 Completed 2002-11-08 09:13:29 18AChF-0000eM-01 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=perelandra (localhost) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=1237 id=20021108164942.GE262@perelandra 2002-11-08 09:13:29 18AChF-0000eM-01 => ric <ric@localhost> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe 2002-11-08 09:13:29 18AChF-0000eM-01 Completed This puzzles me, because the exim.conf files are almost identical; the differences are in the localhost names. Furthermore, both of these machines have the same .forward file, which reads: |/usr/bin/procmail -t and .fetchmailrc is the same for both. So I don't know why my home machine gets the message and sends it to ric <ric@localhost> and my office machine sends it to ric@otte. I can understand why it would have done that with the old exim.conf~ file (with qualify domain=otte), but now that I've removed that, shouldn't it use /etc/exim/exim.conf where it is listed as (qualify domain=otte.ucsc.edu)? I may have misspoken when I said it worked fine when I took out the procmailrc. What I noticed was that a couple of messages didn't have the long delay; but that may have been a quirk, and they may still have been processed twice. I'm going into my office in a while, and I will experiment some more with this. If anyone has any suggestions on things to try, I'm open. Thanks very much for all the advice! Best, Ric ps I don't have two NIC cards, or anything special. I'm puzzled > You have some very funny interactio between exim (which knows your > local domain), fetchmail (which decides your local user name to > deliver to) and procmail. Do you have two NIC cards or something? > I notice in your next delivery that exim says: > > H=cats-mx2.ucsc.edu (ucsc.edu) [128.114.129.35] > > while the first time it was localhost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
