> You don't want to telnet to localhost, because localhost
> is "local" and therefore (possibly) treated differently.
>
> Do your tests by telnetting to the internetface that
> you normally receive your email at (from the same box
> is not problem; just telnet mail.real.domain 25 should do).
I'm not sure to what interface you refer. In my /etc/hosts I have:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com hartford-hwp.com teufel
On my older machines I always gave my machine an IP address as if I
were on a network:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel
but the new Etch installation never asked me for it and so I'm using
127.0.1.1, which I hope suffices.
I tried to telnet to 127.0.1.1, but telnet hangs, and exim4's mail log
says
"lookup of host 'brownh@???' failed in smarthost router"
An embarassing question: I understand that my ISP mail server is a
smart host, but is this saying my local host is a smart host as well?
Am I running a mail server?
I'm using a hardware firewall, and so when I do # ipconfig -a, my eth1
interface is 192.168.111.2, which is the address I use with the
firewall. Telnet can't find any hostname for that address, and exim4
main log says: "rejected RCPT brownh@???: relay not
permitted". Same thing happens when I telnet to my domain name.
Another embarassing question: my local host should not be set up for
relaying, and so why am I getting "relay not permitted" error messages?
Haines
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