Hello, I just joined the list and am an exim newbie, so I hope this isn't a
FAQ. However, in digging through some of the archives, and various
documentation sources, I couldn't find much about it.
I am running Corel Linux, which is based on Debian 2.1r2 and comes with Exim
2.05. I have considered upgrading to a new version of Exim, however, I don't
know if it would come with and updated eximconfig (a utility apparently
included with Debian that simplifies at least the initial setup of
/etc/exim.conf). Anyway, here are my problems:
I own the domain evernex.com, which is hosted by a third party (not me and
not my dialup ISP). This includes POP3 on one of their machines. I want to
send all outgoing mail through my dialup ISP's mail server. This much I
happily typed into eximconfig, and as far as I can tell, fetchmail is
properly retrieving the mail and attempting to pass it to exim, which is
generating errors. A liitle more background, my local machine is named
nexus. nexus.evernex.com resolves to my dialup static IP, but my IP is not
reverse lookup-able. So, I've put in that my local domain is
nexus.evernex.com, although I am pretty unclear on the correctness of that.
I am trying to deliver mail fetched from my POP3 account to user 'neuro' on
my local system, running fetchmail as root when the ppp link comes up.
Anyway, on trying to manually set up exim.conf I was getting various errors,
after using eximconfig, I am still getting errors receiving mail, but
apparently ALL mail generated locally on the system (fetchmail messages
dumped to postmaster, as well as an automatically generated message from
cron) are being relayed through my ISP's server, stmp.pon.net, and are ending
up in my POP3 evernex.com mailbox! I am completely lost. I will post some
examples and log snippets.
First, a couple messages that appear to have gone in this weird loop (I
retrieved them directly from zirx.pair.com, my POP3 host, with my windows
box):
--- message 1 ---
Received: from mx.pon.net (mx-form.pon.net [216.229.96.15]) by zirx.pair.com
(8.9.1/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA29545 for <root@???>; Sat, 19 Feb
2000 18:58:12 -0500 (EST)
X-Envelope-To: <root@???>
Received: from nexus.evernex.com [209.104.253.251] by mx.pon.net with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-6.00) id AE0F187018C; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:58:07 -0800
Received: from root by nexus.evernex.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian))
id 12MAoe-0000Wp-00; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:35:09 -0800
From: root@??? (Cron Daemon)
To: root@???
Subject: Cron <root@nexus> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env:
<PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id: <E12MAoe-0000Wp-00@???>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:35:09 -0800
X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 0 1 P3CFB0.CNM
[content deleted]
--- end message 1 ---
--- message 2 ---
