On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > > > > 2007-09-03 16:13:43 Start queue run: pid=3893 > > 2007-09-03 16:13:43 End queue run: pid=3893 > > 2007-09-03 16:23:32 1ISDm0-00010w-6z <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > U=michael > > P=local S=409 > > 2007-09-03 16:23:55 1ISDm0-00010w-6z => [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > R=smarthos > > t T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=mailrouter.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.145] > > X=TLS-1.0:RSA_ > > AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 > > DN="C=GB,2.5.4.17=#13074d36302031514,ST=England,L=Manchester > > ,STREET=Manchester,2.5.4.18=#1302383,O=Manchester University,OU=Internet > > Service > > s,OU=Issued through UMIST E-PKI Manager,OU=InstantSSL > > Pro,CN=mailrouter.mcc.ac.u > > k" > > 2007-09-03 16:23:55 1ISDm0-00010w-6z Completed > > > > OK. So, IIRC, the problem was that local mail wasn't being delivered > locally, correct?
Yes. If I 'mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]' it gets delivered there, but 'mail me' doesn't get delivered to 'me' on my machine (ratty) > But its sending your mail to the smarthost. How do > you get mail from the smarthost? If its by fetchmail, it will pull it > from the smarthost and give it to exim to deliver which will send it > back to the smarthost. The smarthost is probably recognizing a mail > loop and dropping the message. It's poss I've forgotten something but it all worked once (famous last words?) > At least we know that exim4 itself is working OK. > > I've forgotton the details, but isnt' ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk both your > local name and the name of the smarthost? I'm missing something (I > haven't had enough sleep). ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk is the local machine name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname ratty (outgoing) smarthost is mailrouter.mcc.ac.uk > Try filling in the blanks for me: > > Name of the box on which you send mail to yourself: ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk > > Name of the smarthost that you told exim to use: mailrouter.mcc.ac.uk > Names of hosts/domains that you told exim to treat as local; that it is > the final destination: err... not sure what you mean. Do you mean (from `sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`) ''other dest for which mail is accepted'' for which I have ratty and nothing for machines to relay > contents of the /etc/email-addresses file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/email-addresses # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package # # This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local # part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal. # # It should contain lines of the form: # #user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think we're getting close to figuring out what is going on. thanks!!! M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
