On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:06:58AM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Please note that I am not a network expert, so what I write might be > wrong. > > > with the help of people in this list finally I have a > > exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working. > > Does the multiple SMTP-server configuration work? > > > The problem is that after dialing to my ISP and invoking fetchmail > > at the prompt, it reports the number of emails in the ISP box, but > > can't fetch them. I have to type "exim -bd" as root for fetchmail > > retrieve the messages. Is this normal? > > This is strange indeed. inetd, which should be launched at startup > (/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd), should run exim whenever a connection on its > socket (25) is found (check out the inetd and inetd.conf manpages). > AFAIK everything should be configured correctly by default. > > Have a look at your /etc/inetd.conf, here is the MAIL-part of mine: > > #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/leafnode > > You might try if sending mail locally works by sending a message to > your own user account (just type `mail your-user-name', enter some > subject, the message body and finish it off by pressing Ctrl-D) > > You could check out the logfiles, especially /var/log/exim/mainlog > > Perhaps running inetd in debugging mode (-d) could yield some hints? or try tunning it in daemon mode (disable it in inetd.conf, possibly need to remove it completely, edit some file in /etc/exim (dunno exact name, just look for a small one, else read /usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian, guess it's explained there).
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