On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:37:48PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dman | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >I setup exim on my system this weekend, but it's not working quite | >right. I had a school assignment to create a simple smtp client so I | >setup exim so I could test it without blocking the phone line. exim | >delivers locally just fine. However, it won't send any mail to other | >domains. I have it configured as a "smarthost" and I can send | >messages using the remote server via telnet. exim's log seems to | >indicate that it thinks it delivered the message, but messages aren't | >getting out. | | They are getting out, but they are probably getting dropped somewhere | along the way. | | > From /var/log/exim/mainlog I have : | > | >2001-07-31 08:44:44 15RYtA-0000Jm-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=dman P=local S=447 | ^^^^^^^^^^^ INVALID | Some mail server along the way is probably deciding that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' | is not a valid envelope-from address (which it isn't) and doesn't | deliver the mail. It can't bounce it back to you either, since | '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' isn't a valid address. | | ALWAYS use valid envelope-from addresses.
Makes sense, but how do I set the envelope-from address? That address is valid, but can't be identified by any system other than mine because I don't have my own domain. I just verified, using telnet, that while the mailserver (mail.rit.edu) accepts my mail, it didn't get to my inbox on the CS systems. -D
