> I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. > > I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but > although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail. > There's a fetchmail error message saying something like: "Can't even > send to ac" [my username}. It seems to be an SMTP problem. > > I imagine there's something I should change in /etc/exim.conf but the > things I've tried haven't worked. > > Is anyone successfully using exim with fetchmail? >
exim works fine with fetchmail on my machine. I also had a problem with the pair (exim, fetchmail) that turned out to be because the relevant line was deleted from /etc/inetd.conf. But your description does not match it. Perhaps you can post the exactly what fetchmail error message is ?