On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:28:36PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote: > Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sigh... > > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via > > dselect)... > > Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's > configs. Fetchmail worked. Then I reinstalled exim (but left smail's configs > in place), and fetchmail still worked. I then purged smail's configs, and > fetchmail BROKE. > > Could someone please explain why I need smail config files to use fetchmail > with exim?
I have no idea what smail's old config-files would have to do with it. But as far as your problem, make sure that the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf specifically includes "localhost" (it's not included in the default configuration).
