Ali, Try removing the specification of the smtp server in your Communicator preferences - leave it blank. If this works, good. For an explanation of this phenomenon, see the reply I received just yesterday on this list for my message with the subject "Exim, Pine, and smtp-server".
Regards, Jor-el On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Ali Onur Uyar wrote: > I am using Debian Slink with Exim, configured for an Internet Site, > to receive and send mail using SMTP. > Everthing is configured using default configuration paraemeters. > That is relaying mail through smtp for nonlocal domains is disabled. > > Now the question is wether Exim rejects smtp requests from localhost. > I have installed netscape communicator and as the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) > server I am trying to setup localhost. > When I try to send mails a dialog appears, informing me that the smtp > server does not accept the connection or sth. like that. > > What might be causing this behaviour? Is it because of the config > defaults of exim? > > > TIA > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >