Cleaver me!... I have been my on worst enemy and caused all the
problems. The system is now downloading mail via fetchmail --> exim4 -->
procmail --> spamassasin --> mailboxes --> evolution
The clue was Andreas asking me to telnet into my own box and I couldn't.
Reason, I had written some scripts to allow my notebook to quickly use
eth0 when in its docking station and using the inbuilt NIC to connect to
the lan and another script to use the PCMCIA card when not docked so
that the modem was operational.
Problem was the script for the PCMCIA startup contained "ifdown -av"
which disabled both lo and eth0 which started automatically onboot.
Sorry about all the bother but everyone has been super in assisting me
and I appreciate it.
Now, a couple of quick questions:
1) Exim3 had "smtp_accept_queue_per_connection =" which could be set by
the user. I cannot find this in Exim4. Could someone tell me where this
is?
2) How do I generate exim.crt & exim.key for Exim4?
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:21, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:59:19PM +1000, mpierce wrote:
> > Using exim-tls_3.35-3woody1
> >
> > I've spent countless hours trying to get this to work with failure (and
> > now a mild degree of frustration). In process of changing from my
> > current ADSL ISP supplier to another, so the line has to be terminated
> > for 1-2 weeks during changeover forcing me to use a dialup connection
> > during the interim.
> >
> > Cannot get mail due to error:
> > ...fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> [...]
> > What am I doing wrong that this will not authenticate me at the dialin
> > ISP, mail.optusnet.com.au?
>
> There is absolutely no connection between exim using SMTP AUTH to send
> to mail.optusnet.com.au and fetchmail failing to connect to localhost.
> cu andreas
> PS: The SMTP AUTH looks ok, though.
>
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