I'm just a lowly user trying to download forwarded mail from an ISP where my
website resides. I am not a host, or if I am, it is surely out of default
and sheer ignorance
I am using the latest debian version of exim, not source
For the moment, if exim prefers to do it all, that's good by me too . . . if
only I knew the changes to make (assuming I have to make such changes) in
exim.conf and the options to specify on the command line
I look forward to downloading the latest version of exim, source and all,
but think it would be prudent of me to be up and running first, with a tad
of experience under my belt
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Pennock" <Phil.Pennock@???>
To: "davidturetsky" <davidturetsky@???>
Cc: "exim-users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Suddenly problems with fetchmail
> By default, Exim won't relay to the world, unless you're inserting the
> message using the exim command (local). If you want Exim to relay
> messages out which are received via SMTP then you have to tell it so.
>
> host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1
>
> If you go to wherever your Exim source tree is, and look at
> src/configure.default you'll see the default configuration file, with
> large comments which explain all this. If you don't have the source and
> really don't want to get involved with source, drop me a private email
> and I'll send you a copy.
>
> (Quick look and ...) the relevant part is:
>
> -----------------------------< cut here >-------------------------------
> # The use of your host as a mail relay by any host, including the local
host
> # calling its own SMTP port, is locked out by default. If you want to
permit
> # relaying from the local host, you should set
> #
> # host_accept_relay = localhost
[followed by further wisdom]
