Is that an anti-spam dot in your address? It makes it hard to send you mail. Anyway, please let me know if this works. ----- Original Message ----- From: bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-USER <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed
> From: Kent West > > I can send mail from this box to my own account on this box, as well as > > to my account on my ISP (university campus). I think I've tried every > > permutation on the "qualify_domain" and "local_domains" lines in > > exim.conf, but either I haven't hit the right combination or it's got > > something to do with other lines in that file (or something completely > > different). > > > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > > Hi Kent, > I had the same problem. Here is what I did... > > Set exim.conf with: (BTW, no quotes) > 'qualify_domain = my.isp.whatever' > -- so that it will attach my proper address upon external mailing > 'qualify_recipient = mycomputername' > -- to let exim know that unqualified recipient names should be local > 'local_domains = mycomputername' > -- so that I can send mail internally to different users > 'local_domains_include_host = true' > 'local_domains_include_host_literals = true' > -- so that exim allows mail to be delivered internally via any of the above > hosts > If you generated your exim.conf via 'eximconfig' for dialup users, the rest > of the configuration should do just fine. The next step is... > Disable the 'exim' file in your /etc/init.d by opening the file and > commenting out the lines with '#', naturally... > Set exim to run as a daemon from /etc/inetd.conf by editing my MAIL category > to look like this... > #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. > #<off>#uucp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.uucpd > smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/exim /usr/sbin/exim -bd > > Now... as for fetchmail... > run the attached little script as root to generate yourself a '.fetchmailrc' > Don't bother with 'fetchmailconf' it just makes a mess of things if you > don't know how to use it. I guess that goes for me too. > By default the script will set your 'mda' to be 'procmail'. This must be > tweaked to read: > mda "/usr/sbin/exim -odb root" > For test purposes, I would suggest not using the option 'fetchall' until you > are certain that you have it working otherwise you may destroy any mail that > you have in your mailbox. Always test before you 'fetchall'. Read the docs > for fetchmail to find out about any further options you think you might > want. > Good Luck, > brian. > >
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