I fixed my local mail and retrieval of ISP mail. added / changed local domains (were not set properly by eximconfig, probably a type-o by me)
that took care of local mail. found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed.... Still didn't totally fix ISP retrieval, Exim didn't like the address "ryder" that fetchmail was using, changed .fetchmailrc to say "kryder71 is [EMAIL PROTECTED] here" , now it works. I think I know how to setup the cron job, but can anyone verify that I know what I am talking about? login as root, edit crontab, resubmit it to cron, that's basic idea, right? Thanks in advance, Ken, who has had a long day fighting with exim, but won, at least for now....