Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
OK, thanks Phil for all the information! I am pretty much stuck in the mud with this, so the detailed help is much appreciated. I won't be getting back to it until the weekend... As far as the name server, I think I'll be OK with that part of it (I've also noted Noah's post below). I had one runni

Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > No, you've just not yet realized it. 8^) Read > /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz and skip to section 29 on the > lookuphost router. One of the options there is called 'gethostbyname' > and

Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:45:39PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > I have yet to find a SMTP agent that can use just the straight /etc/hosts > file. > No, you've just not yet realized it. 8^) Read /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz and skip to section 2

Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What I can't figure out is how to configure Exim to send mail from one > machine to the other on the LAN. And I suspect there is some basic > fundamental of email/networking that I don't und

Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Apologies in advance for a long post. I have a two machine home network using 192.168.1.X static addresses, both running Debian potato and using Exim as the MTA. Both machines on that network can reach the Internet through a hardware router/firewall (Linksys BEFSR41), and then a cable modem. The