Yes, /etc/email-addresses was a blank file. I added the entry and made the /etc/exim/exim.conf changes as suggested by Dman and all is well. I love it when things work. Now I just have to remember what I was trying to do before all this happened ... oh yea making a 2.4 image ... thanks for your reply
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:03:50PM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:29:40PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: > > > I'm not sure what exim is trying to do here. "joe" is my user name on > > the computer joeheuring is my email name for cox.net > > > > my /etc/aliases has always read > > > > joeheuring: joe > > Hello Joe, > > Not an exim expert here by any means, but it's worth checking > /etc/email-addresses. There's a bit of magic in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION > section of /etc/exim.conf that uses this file. You should have a line that > associates your local login name with your real email address at your ISP. > In your case it would be something like: > > joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or whatever the correct info is in your case. > > If this was somehow changed it would break your outgoing mail. > > Cordially, > Mark S. Reglewski > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
