From: Simo PW Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/3/2005 2:20:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: simple exim configuration
> The is value should be your local username i.e. in your case I guess > 'paul' in all three accounts (if you want all three accounts to deliver > mail to user 'paul'). done. This allowed me to send a message to paslist which is not currently being read by fetchmail but messages to waterhorse or pslist are frozen along with many others. > > > > > > > I guess the main problem here is the name of your machine. > > > > /etc/mailname is blank. Do you mean that I should use mail.ultrasw.com ? > > No, the /etc/mailname is used to resolve the domain part of the email > address. If you send mail to e.g. paul (without any @something), then > whatever is in your /etc/mailname is appended to the username with @. So my machine name is 'joy'. Is that what I should use? > > > See also the question G11 in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html. > > > > It describes the problem about the name resolving. I.e. when your exim > sends the mail to the smarthost, it must tell the smarthost where the > connection is coming from. More often than not, the name must match the > the name which the smarthost gets when doing the reverse DNS. How do I know what that would be? ultrasw.com ? > > I'm not sure, but I think the exim uses the /etc/mailname to tell the > smarthost where the mail is coming from. > > In exim4-config the /etc/mailname is called visible_name (if I recall > correctly). That's not in any of my exim4 config files except: conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:.ifndef DC_visiblename conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:DC_visiblename=DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:.ifdef DC_visiblename conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs:qualify_domain = DC_visiblename > > After fixing the is-parameters, you could try to set the visible_name to > 'localhost' and check the exim log for the results. Since I am using dpkg-reconfigure where would I change this without interfering with debconf? I have learned about eximon and I have a large number of frozen messages. Can I free them up without losing them? I found /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz and learned to set /etc/email-addresses. Now I can send myself test messages at both addresses that fetchmail is currently reading!!!!! I have also just sent a test message to another list I am subscribed to!!!!! Now I just need to be able to set the 'From:' address in mutt so I can sent messages to lists that need the from address to be different than waterhorse. Thank you so much for your patience, Paul
