RE: Smail help needed from newbie

. -paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Abdul Aziz Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 1:25 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Smail help needed from newbie "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: &

Re: Smail help needed from newbie

"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail > server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and > therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but

Re: Smail help needed from newbie

How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. BTW I use exim instead of smail, and it works like a charm. On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:16:53PM +, Abdul A

Smail help needed from newbie

Hi, I'm new to Debian and am trying to get smail working (using Elm) on 2.1 Slink - standard install from CD's. I keep getting the message cannot parse fully qualified domain. I filled in the name of my ISP (lineone.net) for the smarthost part of the config (I also tried smtp.lineone.net which got