Hi, Almost there!
I did a complete reinstall. Setserial reports data in conformity with the hardware setting and /etc/serial.conf has the correct entries. Minicom communicates with the modem through /dev/ttyS1 fine. I have wvdial operational and it connects ppp as I can do 'dig' on imaginet and get results back. ~/.fetchmailrc was edited by hand as per email from dman and permission set at 600 and I own it I have edited resolv.conf to show correct primary and secondary DNS nameservers as per Brenda's email 11/12/01 nameserver 196.15.145.5 nameserver 196.15.145.7 /etc/host.conf also inconformity with Brendas email same date as is /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc hosts shows just me per brenda's email 12/12/01 127.0.0.1 hephaestus localhost I am a member of the groups dialout, dip, staff > If you run exim from the shell and enter a message, does it get > delivered? For example : > > $ exim [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: test message > > yo, can I see this? > ^D No, exim generates a message but it does not get delivered. From /var/log/exim we find time/msg no.... imaginet.co.za [196.15.145.8]: Connection refused time/msg no.... imaginet.co.za [196.15.145.5]: Connection refused time/msg no.... == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused Now my primary and secondary dns addresses are in /etc/resov.conf as nameserver 196.15.145.5 nameserver 196.15.145.7 so where the 196.15.145.8 comes from I do not know. In my Win98 setup the pop3 and smtp host is set as imail.imaginet.co.za which dig shows as 196.15.145.6 . I do not seem to have this set anywhere. Should this not be? I saw in the exim documentation that it either runs at start up from initd (something like that) or can run as a daemon. What is the difference, and what should I do. I do not see it listed on the boot up messages at all, and cannot see it listed in top so it is not running as far as I can see. I suppose the sequence of events should be: Dial up and see ppp negotiation. $ fetchmail exim is running and will kick in to send mail when imaginet appears on the network fetchmail seems to want something else on the command line. If I do $ fetchmail imaginet.co.za then it wants password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- which is obviously not correct. I try it with hephaestus and put in my root password, but this is not the solution. In any case the passwords have already been dealt with at ppp negotiation stage - right? Next step? Regards Ian Ian Balchin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fables Bookshop, 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone or Fax +27-(0)46-636-1525 cell: 083-495-7353 sms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Member Southern African Book Dealers Association http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables Bookselling is, like prostitution, a trade in which the amateurs think that they are better than the professionals. -- Roger Page in Australian Bookselling.
