On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0000, thus spake John-Mark: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to > connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be > passing the mail to exim and therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj > mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also > if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it? > Thanks for all help which is much appreciated. > jm >
First of all establish whether Exim is listening on port 25 $ telnet localhost 25 You should get a response like this Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 glynthebearded.localdomain ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:57:55 +0000 If that works then Exim is where you want it and your problems lie elsewhere. How about letting us have a look at your .fetchmailrc? Some good stuff on setting up fetchmail is on Martin Holland's Noether Linux site www.noether.freeserve.co.uk and for a well-commented .muttrc for beginners try Telsa at "http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html"; HTH Glyn M -- ************************************************ * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * * the rest love not freedom but license * * John Milton * ************************************************
