On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 05:55:18PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> At 11:57 PM 5/17/2003 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> >I am trying to use Exim as my MTA, but I cannot construct a proper
> >exim.conf
> >file that includes all the necessary smtp info. I have tried
> >unsuccessfully to
> >get the information from the exim manual and sample exim.conf files.
> >
> >Using Debian 3.0, Exim3.35, Fetchmail6.2, and Linux2.2.20.
> >At the moment I am operating as a single user.
>
> http://www.hserus.net/exim.html
>
> Use fetchmail to receive your mail. Use exim to queue mail when offline
> and hand it off to your ISP for onward delivery.
Thanks for your response. At some point, probably many months ago, Fetchmail
was indeed fetching mail from my ISP and storing it in my /var/mail/Inbox. I
have tried many, many times to retrace my steps and to troubleshoot my mail
subsystem, but I have failed to do so successfully. Your advice (above) is to
"Use fetchmail to receive (my) mail". But I don't know how to do that, and the
error messages I get when trying to run fetchmail imply that I may have a
smarthost/smtp problem. I have run eximconfig and chosen the simplest option,
which does not select smarthost. But, even so, I still cannot get fetchmail to
work. A few comments from the people on the Fetchmail users' list persuaded me
that it is not a Fetchmail problem -- in fact, my Fetchmail config file is about
as simple as it can be, and is identical to the file which at one time was
working fine.
As I see it, the source of my problem can be found in one (or more) of the
following: my ISP, my Fetchmail configuration, my exim configuration. BTW,
when I "telnet myISP 25" I get the following dialog:
Trying 216.250.230.62...
Connected to wdn.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.wdn.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo wdn.com
250-mail.wdn.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-XVERP
250 8BITMIME
I know this is getting far afield from Exim but I am surprised to see that my
ISP does not seem to acknowledge smtp. I don't seem to be able to solve this
problem -- where might I turn for a resolution.
Thanks again.
sam
