On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:45:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am trying to configure my Linux box to send and receive > mail using: > > mutt > fetchmail > procmail and > exim > > However, when I ran fetchmail I received the following message: > > 11 messages for russir-1 at mail.inet.fi (25486 octets). > reading message 1 of 11 (3002 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't > like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > fetchmail: can't even send to irvine! > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.inet.fi > fetchmail: Query status=10
Your problem is exim not fetchmail. Can you send mail to yourself on your local machine? You need to add localhost to your localdomains in /etc/exim.conf local_domains = localhost:<your hostname> host_accept_relay = localhost -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
