On 02-Jul-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: > Didi Damian wrote: >> >> The error that you got from sendmail might have been caused by not having >> 'localhost' added to exim.conf on this line: > > It's in there. In fact it was in there twice, so I removed one. > > [snip] > >> >> I haven't messed with SMTP in inetd at all but I would restore the entry in >> inetd.conf and fix the above line in exim.conf (in case it's not already >> there) >> and try again. From the error message it looks like fetchmail is configured >> right >> and the problem is with SMTP. >> > > I have one line in inetd.conf with smpt and exim in it this is it: > > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > > Is this all I need there? > > I'm running potato btw, if that matters. I just did an update/upgrade > and a new exim was installed, but that didn't change things :( > > BTW, that strange error message seems to come from exim. I found a > section in the exim.conf file that looks a lot like it.
If these errors just started after you upgraded Exim to 3.x, a fixed version has been posted. I went back to running Exim as a daemon after installing this new version of Exim (3.02-3) and all is well now. If you want to run Exim from inetd, you also need to uncomment the following: # exit 0 in your /etc/init.d/exim In addition to uncommenting the Exim line in /etc/inetd.conf However, it seems to work when run as a daemon now. -- Andrew
