"Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to > use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user. > However I am having problems getting it to work. > > I chose, > (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a network. Mail for local users > is delivered. > > I can mail to localusers just find using, mail. However if I try and do, > fetchmail -u username t8.cs.man.ac.uk > > reading message 1 of 5 (1386 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to > localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from t8.cs.man.ac.uk > fetchmail: Query status=10
You need to add localhost to a list in /etc/exim.conf, specifically the "local_domains" line. It should look something like: local_domains = hostname:hostname.junk.org:localhost This should fix you up. Gary
