I need to get at the root of this problem because I am also having problems with my mail. I am able to get it with fetchmail, but I allways get errors about "smtp connection to localhost failed unable to raise listener falling back to /usr/sbin/sendmail " during the process. I am using fetchmail and exim and have dsl through my cable company; am running dhcpcd. I don't know if this problem has something to do with my re-install or with my recent acquisition of rdsl. I have tried and tried reconfiguring exim but nothing seems to help. If I put the name of my machine as the qualified name in exim, I notice that some messages being sent to me are coming back as resent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (machine name). But when I tried putting my isp's domain name there, I found I had a mail loop. Mail was coming to me through fetchmail but never going to my Pine inbox or even to /var/spool/mail; it appeared to be sent back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I watched this over the period of a few fetchmail runs and my chartermi.net number of messages kept growing when I ran fetchmail so I finally realized what was happening, especially when they never showed up in my inbox. When I changed back to Maranatha for the qualifiedname in my exim, the loop stopped and i noticed I had a couple of messages from my chartermi.net mail delivery that said certain messages were undeliverable because of too many hops. I've never had this problem before, so I'm not sure where the glitch is. Exim.conf is long enough that I don't want to include it in my email but if nobody can help me without seeing that I'll send selected parts of it. My /etc/hosts contains the following: 127.0.0.1 maranatha
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts The last few lines were apparently added in my last upgrade, and I'm not sure of their significance.
