Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I added an entry to the alias file, and all was well.
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mmmm102000 5:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: exim (II) > > Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? > If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most > definitely explain the error you're describing. > > Cheers! > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello!, > > > > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim > > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate > > very much any help regarding this matter! > > > > 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I > receive > > still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails > > from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount > > myISP.com > > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) > > 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). > > reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost > > failed > > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com > > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > > > > what could be wrong? > > > > 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the > > MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this a > > problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. > > > > 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, > goes > > to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. > > > > 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file > > /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. > This > > is normal? > > > > Again, any help will be very appreciated!! > > > > Cheers,
