Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@???> (Fr 02 Dez 2016 09:17:16 CET):
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> That works, after adding the inet_listener to Dovecot. Thank you!
> I did have a problem with "hosts = localhost", though:
> 23:50:31 16287 no IP address for host name localhost: skipping
>
> which resulted in a defer. I had to use 127.0.0.1 (which then appeared
> to incur a DNS lookup on that as though it were a name...). Exim
> /should/ be able to resolve the name "localhost":
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> localhost4.localdomain4
> ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> localhost6.localdomain6
The nameserver from my resolv.conf resolves 'localhost'. If I'm not
wrong, Exim uses DNS in the first place to resolve a hostname.
(I'm not sure about a fallback, if there is no answer from the DNS
server.)
Probably your DNS responds with NXDOMAIN?
> >> > 2016-11-30 15:25:56 [13335] Exim configuration error in line 855 of
> >> > /usr/local/etc/exim.conf:
> >> > option "socket" unknown
> > I'm working in it..
>
> What about a private option for the lmtp transport that told Exim to
> follow through with callouts? Something like force_callouts.
I'm lost. I'm not sure, how to understand it.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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