There are two ways of running exim: as a standalone daemon and as a
process spawned by inetd. The description you're referring to is how to
set it up to be spawned out of inetd. If you're going to be recieving
any sort of volume of mail, I would recommend running it as a daemon
(exim -bd).
Regarding your receipt problems, do you have wokness.com set in
local_domains? If you're sending mail to wokness.com from another
machine, is your exim-running machine the lowest numbered mx? The
online manual is, IMHO, much easier to search through than spec.txt, and
the configuration file is pretty well documented inline. I would
recommend going through the main part of the exim configuration (the
first part before the first 'end') and reading all the comments.
wokness monster wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just ran across the file called spec.txt, and I found it answerd
> alot of my questions. It said for me to be able to get mail I had to
> add this line to /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait exim /usr/exim/bin/exim in.exim -bs
>
> I did, but for some reason, I still can not get mail. I open Eudora,
> send a e-mail to wokness@???, and then do this:
>
> ironhide# su wokness
> $ mail
> No mail for wokness
> $
>
> Now I know Eudora is sending mail, beacuse it sends it to a external
> address (wokness@???) and I recive it. Is adding that line in inetd.conf
> the only thing you have to do or is there more? Also, yes, I restarted
> my system after I updated that file.
>
> I also tried replacing that line with this (and it did not work):
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/exim/bin/exim in.exim -bs
>
> basically, exim for root. Also I do have SMTP uncommented in /etc/services.
> Is there any other place SMTP might be commented out? Or is there anywhere
> else that I need to look for the mail being reviced?
>
> You guys are awsome, I have been trying to get a mail server up for 4
> months (qmail and postfix) and have been unsuccessfull, but you guys
> already got me sending e-mail, thanks!
>
> Thanks (again),
> Wokenss
>
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