usually I have an ethernet link at school, and I use fetchmail to fetch
mail from our pop server.
At the moment, I'm at home, and I have ppp running fine (also did
"ifconfig eth0 down" to get rid of the ethernet link). But now smail is
giving me all sorts of problems -- fetchmail is fetching mail correctly
and sending it to port 25 of my machine.
Then /var/spool/smail/input gets those messages, and smail is unable to
empty it. /var/spool/smail/msglog fills up with entries like these:
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked
And if I do "rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost", I get these in
the msglogs.
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect:
Connection refused
I'm using smail-3.2-3.deb, and /etc/inetd.conf is starting in.smtpd ok
(everything worked fin via ethernet, didn't get problems until I tried it
over ppp). I can "telnet localhost 25" and get the smtp server on my
machine ... it just can't deliver anything.
One note: when connected by ethernet, my hostname is
rivendell.rdny.udel.edu. I can send mail from rivendell to rivendell ok,
but stuff coming in from outside to [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't getting through.
Does this have to do with the fact that my hostname is different when I
use ppp?
Will
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