Re: mail does not work

[Sandip P Deshmukh]

Shyamal Prasad wrote:

Sandip> i ran eximconfig and answered the q to the best of my
Sandip> abilities. however, outgoing mails are not yet going.


Did you chose smarthost or not? If you picked smarthost, what is your
smarthost?

oh frankly, i did not know what does 'smarthost' mean. still took a chance and said yes to it. my smarthost is ip address of nt server.

my entry in /etc/exim/exim.conf is:

######################################################################
# ROUTERS CONFIGURATION #
# Specifies how remote addresses are handled #
######################################################################
# ORDER DOES MATTER #
# A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. #
######################################################################

# Remote addresses are those with a domain that does not match any item
# in the "local_domains" setting above.

# Send all mail to a smarthost

smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* 192.168.100.1 bydns_a"

end

looks similar to yours. except that i have an ip adderss where you had server name. should i put my machine's ip address as smarthost?

    Sandip> my machine is connected to a server that runs win nt. it
    Sandip> has its own ip address. my machine also has a static ip
    Sandip> address. then there is a gateway and two dns servers.


    Sandip> in windows i used to use the nt server's ip address as
    Sandip> smtp server address and it would work. it still works in
    Sandip> linux/ mozilla combination.


    Sandip> how do i do it? ideally, i will NOT like to depend on the
    Sandip> nt server to send my mails out. can that be done?

Where does your nt server send it's mail to? Does it use SMTP?

well, nt server is our local lan server. i am told they use some merak mail server. but as i said, i will like to send outgoing mail directly from my machine and *not* depend on the server.

thanx again

- sandip


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