On 10 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though > whether it's configured properly is another matter. > > Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured > or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being > loaded.
Do you use inetd, the Internet Super Server? It's nice because it allows you to run a single process which will spawn appropriate server processes to handle incoming network requests. I also use fetchmail. fetchmail connects via POP to my ISPs POP server and then forwards my mail to my local system (localhost) via SMTP. inetd is configured to spawn an exim process to handle incoming traffic on port 25. exim receives the mail from fetchmail via SMTP and delivers it to the appropriate spool file(s). BTW, eximconfig & fetchmailconf are two very useful frontends to the configuration of these tools. You could probrably have exim always running, but why if you can save resources? Jason > > Thanx again. > > Irvine > > >>At 10:08 10.3.2000 +0100, Ralf G. R. Berg wrote: >> >>Telnet IS working, but obviously you aren't running a local SMTP server > (this >>is what you are trying to telnet to!!). Fetchmal also needs a local SMTP >>server to be able to feed you the messages it just downloaded. >> >>I recommend you to install "Exim", far superior to the old mail daemon >>"sendmail." >> >> >>-- >>Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. >>http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ >> of a GNU /( )\ >> Generation ^^-^^ > > > >
