Hi Marcelo, Please note that I am not a network expert, so what I write might be wrong.
> with the help of people in this list finally I have a > exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working. Does the multiple SMTP-server configuration work? > The problem is that after dialing to my ISP and invoking fetchmail > at the prompt, it reports the number of emails in the ISP box, but > can't fetch them. I have to type "exim -bd" as root for fetchmail > retrieve the messages. Is this normal? This is strange indeed. inetd, which should be launched at startup (/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd), should run exim whenever a connection on its socket (25) is found (check out the inetd and inetd.conf manpages). AFAIK everything should be configured correctly by default. Have a look at your /etc/inetd.conf, here is the MAIL-part of mine: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode You might try if sending mail locally works by sending a message to your own user account (just type `mail your-user-name', enter some subject, the message body and finish it off by pressing Ctrl-D) You could check out the logfiles, especially /var/log/exim/mainlog Perhaps running inetd in debugging mode (-d) could yield some hints? Sorry, I cannot be any more helpful, Christoph
