On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:10:17 -0500 Bryon Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Btw, I've it seems that exim abhors a POP. Even if fetchmail gets >an >> incoming message under POP, exim acts like it didn't get through, >with >> error messages announcing that the SMTP listener is grievously >offended. >> This is inconvenient, since my ISP sends by POP3. After several >hours of >> trying various exim configurations, I replaced exim with smail, and >the >> problem went away. Still won't do NNTP, however. No news is bad >news. >> >> I attempted to install Netscape4 (4.0-15) from my Debian 2.1 CD, >using >> dselect. Setup was unsuccessful. During configuration it says: > >Run eximconfig. When it asks you about other names your machine >appears as, put in localhost. > >-- >All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious >things >against him, but we never hear his side. > -- Mark Twain >** >Bryon Roche, Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, but adding a localhost domain by eximconfig is one of the first things I tried. It's puzzling, because smail is so similar to exim, and yet the former works for me, while the latter doesn't-- with the same basic settings. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
