apologies for further questions on the same topic. I am using Mutt with
exim and fetchmail with a dial-up account with an isp - panix.com. i
originally configured with the "interactive" exim configuration utility
and for a while, everything worked fine. when i installed gnome, it caused
a few problems...when i, unintentionally, invoked Tkmail, more config
problems developed. specifically, i can no longer sendmail. I have been
trying to modify the /etc/exim.conf file manually, following the advices
offered on the list, but i have not been able to remedy the problem, so
one more time, a very similar question. I have modified the settings per
previous advice:
qualify_domains = panix.com
qualify_recipient = localhost
local_domains = localhost
with these settings, i am still unable to send mail, this is via telnet to
isp.
my computer does not have a fully qualified domain name, my user name on
my computer is pe, the user name at the isp is mickle, and the e-mail
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] my computer or "system" name is PIENO. if,
using mutt, i send e-mail to myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, i get a delivery
failed message addressed to my local address [EMAIL PROTECTED] indicating that
the
address [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after a long failure period.
apologies again...any thoughts,
Peter
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> These three settings are important in exim.conf:
>
> qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz
> qualify_recipient = localhost
> local_domains = localhost
>
> Assuming your computer does not have a fully-qualified domain name (most
> dial-up users don't).
> If you do have a FQDN, use that instead of localhost. So, people who want to
> send mail to you
> will send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will use fetchmail to relay the mail
> from your POP account
> to the local machine (tell fetchmail that you want to send it to [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]). You will send
> mail to local users by addressing it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or just user, and
> the mail will be routed
> locally. You will send mail to non-local users by addressing it to [EMAIL
> PROTECTED], and
> the recipient will see [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "From:" field. Does that
> sound like what you wanted?
>
> Marc
>
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>
> >>> Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08 10:21 AM >>>
> Greetings...
>
> I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some
> messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the
> actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a
> week ago when I last tried, but not yesterday or today...)
>
> Anyway, this should be an easy problem to solve for somebody. I've played
> around with eximconfig a bit, but I can't find how to solve the problem.
>
> I'm using exim and fetchmail for my mail delivery. Exim is setup using option
> 2 in eximconfig (recommended for dialup systems). Everything is working fine,
> I can receive email and send it fine, except if I try and send email to
> people on my ISP. The problem is that outgoing emails have their addresses
> rewritten as @ihug.co.nz, and my mail system classes these emails as local,
> so it tries to deliver them on my machine and fails.
>
> I thought I'd fixed this by stopping ihug.co.nz being considered local, but
> then email generated by cronjobs and such were finding their way to my
> provider ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - since the outgoing mails were having their
> addresses rewritten).
>
> I think it should be a simple fix to solve this, but I don't know what it
> is... I've checked howtos but they only seem to cover other MTAs. :-/
>
> Thanks in advance.
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