Abdul, I had a similar problem with exim. It complained about relaying mail when I tried to send mail through it using Outlook on a networked PC. I would recommend re-running exim.conf. Try selecting another option at the first question, server type. This took care of the problem for me.
-paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Abdul Aziz Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 1:25 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Smail help needed from newbie "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail > server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and > therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays in local machine, and gets bounced back to user who sent it. I did try exim but had exactly the same problem, so installed smail instead. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null