On 29/04/07, Gloria Brown <Gloria@???> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:48 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> > On 29/04/07, Gloria Brown <Gloria@???> wrote:
> > > When I attempt to send a message with rmail, /var/log/exim4/mainlog says
> > > that "no IP address found for host <PW>" "Look up of hos <PW> failed in
> > > smarthost router". [Here "<PW>" is my password]
> > >
> > > When configuring exim, when it asked for the hostname of the outgoing
> > > smart host, I entered:
> > >
> > > "smtp.registeredsite.com:hartford-hwp.com:<PW>"
> > >
> > > Do I have the syntax wrong here?
> >
> > If you wrote the config yourself, please post the contents of your
> > smarthost router. If you used some automated config mechanism, best to
> > consult the docs for that mechanism, since vanilla exim doesn't ask
> > you questions about smarthosts.
>
> Peter, I wrote the config myself.
Then please post it. Actually I doubt you did, since you refer to
answering questions... which Exim doesn't ask.
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdoman localhost
> 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel
> [+ ip6 lines]
>
> /etc/networking/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>
> To simplify things, I removed my hardware firewall, and now $ netstat
> -rn shows I have no routing table at all!
None of which is the smarthost router from your exim config.... if you
don't know the basics, it would be a good idea to go back to the place
you got your config from for support, or spend some time with the Exim
documentation.
And you now seem to have broken your networking configuration, too.
Peter
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Peter Bowyer
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