On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: > > > Are there any instructions on how to set up mail for a "standard" > home-desktop user? I.E.: I send my mail via smtp and recieve via pop3? > > I got fetchmail working -- but it seems that all my messages are "frozen" > -- is some filtering program messing up my program? What do you mean with "frozen"? > > and sending mail is just the same kind of disaster -- I used eximconfig and > typed in everything I thought I should -- no entry for an actualy smtp > server, so I guessed where it should go. I have the same kind of setup and I had the same problem. The problem was, that I did not understand that my ISP's smtp server is actually a smarthost. Try running eximconfig with that in mind.
If that still does not work, check the file /etc/exim.conf. Important settings should be like this: qualify_domain = concentric.net local_domains = concentric.net smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* smtp.concentric.net bydns_a" # Probably If your local username is not the same as your username at your ISP, you probably want to add something like the following to the REWRITE CONFIGURATION-section of the /etc/exim.conf file: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fF # example This will rewrite the headers > > I noticed that none of the standard HOWTOs in LDP have anything about exim > and they all talk about smail and sendmail.. > Take a look at /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt > > Anyway -- if someone would help me through this or just give me some > pointers on where to proceed. I honestly thought I was finished when I got > fetchmail working....but I haven't solved anything, only created more > problems. > Let me know if you need more help. > > -abr
