Hi, Following up on the discussion some days ago about the stuff below. I had my ISP point the static IP to the domain name (or vice-versa).
I'm now trying to get exim/fetchmail to work. I suspect I have been picking all the wrong options in eximconfig, because no matter how many times I have gone round, I get the following when I try to run fetchmail: 6 messages (2 seen) for burningclown at burningclown.com (18717 octets). skipping message 1 (2375 octets) not flushed skipping message 2 (2675 octets) not flushed reading message 3 of 6 (4214 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to $sendmail %Tsh: chexmix: command not found fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error fetchmail: socket error while delivering to SMTP host burningclown.com fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: terminated with signal 13 Can anyone diagnose that? My .fetchmailrc file is as follows (password deleted) poll mail.burningclown.com proto POP3 username burningclown password <password> ... essentially, I'm floundering here, because at base I'm not sure WHAT eximconfig option to choose at the outset. I have a DSL connection but it seems like eximconfig option (2) (Internet site using smarthost) is the closest (since after all I've been getting mail by ssh-ing in to the account), but I don't know what to list as the "smarthost" ... would it be mail.burningclown.com? I can keep going around eximconfig until it works, but maybe it never will! Would anyone care to shower enlightenment upon me (provided it's available)? :) Thanks for any help, Glenn > > Who "does" what in that situation? The DSL provider (Speakeasy) has > > also provided me with DNS server addresses ... they know nada about the > > domain I'm hosting with another company (should they?) ... that other > > hosting company (WestHost) knows nada about my DSL provider ... > > > > -Who-, in this scenario, would be the one to do this: > > > > "configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say > > 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com: > > > > pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222"
