Thus spake Craig Dickson: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite > > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech > > support, well, never mind) has been less than helpful about getting it > > resolved. As I never get a bounce, and the logs say all sent mail sends > > normally, but several of my friends still complain I never write, I > > though I would try my hand at setting something up to deliver the mail > > directly, rather than going through my ISP. Right now I use > > exim/fetchmail from Woody. Any suggestions? Comments? Rude noises? > > If all you're concerned about is outgoing mail, then you have everything > you need already. Just reconfigure exim (using eximconfig) to be an > "internet site" instead of uploading all your mail to your ISP's SMTP > server. Then exim will directly deliver outgoing mail to the > destination. I have exim set up this way, and it works fine.
Yup -that got it! I kind of thought so, but I wanted to see if perhaps there was a 'better' way or if the simplest way was the best (as is usually the case). Thanks again, Steve
