> The main problem is your hosts file. Are you saying the hosts file on the two machines should be identical? I tried having this on both machines:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel 192.168.1.3 langhans.hartford-hwp.com langhans 192.168.1.1 router.hartford-hwp.com router I didn't know what name to give the router. Is "router" right? # ifconfig -a on my desktop shows that its IP address has changed to inet addr:192.168.1.4. I've no idea what could have caused this. Should I just modify the two hosts files above accordingly, or find out why teufel is no longer at 192.168.1.2? I tried adding 192.168.1.4 teufel... to both files, but it did not help. > The most likely problem is that your laptop is not getting assigned a > sensible hostname, and the mail domain which Exim is appending to the > sender is not one which your hosting service is configured to relay for. > I don't know how Debian configures the hostname, you'd need to look into > that yourself. But getting the /etc/hosts correct is the first step. Debian didn't configure the hostname, I did. That is, when installing the system I assigned the hostname, but I know from experience that I can change the hostname at will simply by editing the /etc/hostname file and rebooting (actually, it can be a bit more complicated than this, but even this works). I assume the hostname file is static and simply contains the name that I write to it. > Also, check the settings in /etc/reslov.conf on both machines. They > should be the same, but appear not to be. No, they are the same. Both files simply have: nameserver 192.168.1.1 Haines -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
