OK, it's my turn. Yes I RTFM's. First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I decided that if exim was the prefered Debian MTA I would switch to it. Well after 3 days I have finally got it te accept mail from the net but I still can't send any ( I'm on Slackware (qmail) now). If I follow the eximconfig instructions, option 2. I get the following qualify_domain = ix.netcom.com local_domains = ix.netcom.com and the correct smarthost section. No mail is received with the above. Fetchmail won't get the mail and replies with something like "can't accept mail to localhost, no wtopa @ localhost". Based on that message I changed some of what the script configured I changed qualify_domain = mtntop.home local_domains = localhost I left the smarthost line alone. Result: I can now receive mail. I still can't send mail so I added to REWRITE CONFIGURATION [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] frs (As per a post to this list) Attempts to send mail give the following log entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-32): retry time not reached 1999-03-05 11:56:55 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 == debian-user@lists.debian.org routing defer (-32): retry time not reached 1999-03-05 11:55:41 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=wtopa P=local S=847 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:55:41 10Ixsz-0000JN-00 == debian-user@lists.debian.org R=smarthost defer (-1): These log entries were after an exim -q as root. I did not try using eximon to send these, maybe I should have, but they should send without it anyway. Things I tried but that didn't work. I tried local_hosts = mtntop.home as also suggested but after going tru all the docs can not find any reference to that so removed it. So my questions are : Is the eximconfig script setting exim up for anyone else? What is required to send mail with this beast? I have removed the 30m from the init.d/exim scripts as I cron for mail twice an hour, is this OK? Any suggestions or flames appreciated. TIA Wayne -- Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
