Re: exim not sending mail

2002-04-08 Thread Joe Heuring
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:30:52PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:29:40PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: > > | Exim version 3.34 #1 built 19-Jan-2002 17:51:35 > > | Hello all. I've asked for help on this to another group and hope I'm > | not cross posting to early but it's Sunday

Re: exim not sending mail

2002-04-08 Thread Joe Heuring
Yes, /etc/email-addresses was a blank file. I added the entry and made the /etc/exim/exim.conf changes as suggested by Dman and all is well. I love it when things work. Now I just have to remember what I was trying to do before all this happened ... oh yea making a 2.4 image ... thanks for your

Re: exim not sending mail

2002-04-07 Thread dman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:29:40PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: | Exim version 3.34 #1 built 19-Jan-2002 17:51:35 | Hello all. I've asked for help on this to another group and hope I'm | not cross posting to early but it's Sunday and I would really like my | mutt back as I have to type a bunch

Re: exim not sending mail

2002-04-07 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:29:40PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: > I'm not sure what exim is trying to do here. "joe" is my user name on > the computer joeheuring is my email name for cox.net > > my /etc/aliases has always read > > joeheuring: joe Hello Joe, Not an exim expert here by any means

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
--- Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With most DSL connections you don't need a smarthost (that is, a > server that will accept your mail and forward it to the correct > server) and let you send your mail directly to the correct server. > Try to run eximconfig and set your server to a

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
With most DSL connections you don't need a smarthost (that is, a server that will accept your mail and forward it to the correct server) and let you send your mail directly to the correct server. Try to run eximconfig and set your server to alternative 1 (if my memory serves me correctly), that is,

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
SOLVED (sorta) I tweaked /usr/share/doc/exim/example.conf.gz to get a working configuration. I don't know what was wrong with the output from eximconfig but I did notice there was no setting for primary_hostname Cheers, patrick. --- patrick q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:47:36AM -0700, patrick q wrote: | AFAIK, I'm just an ordinary dialup user and should be sending mail to | my telco isp, pop.mts.net, to which I connect to retrieve mail, but | which refuses telnet connections to port 25 I would expect that a POP server would ignore SMTP

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
--- Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I take it that you are both sending and receiving mail directly > from > your machine. Are you supposed to send your mail to another host as > per > your usual terms of service? For instance I send all my outgoing > mail > to netmail.home.c

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
So I take it that you are both sending and receiving mail directly from your machine. Are you supposed to send your mail to another host as per your usual terms of service? For instance I send all my outgoing mail to netmail.home.com as my outgoing server. It seems like you as a localhost aren't

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I ran eximconfig choosing 'Smarthost' and the > defaults. The only thing that I can think of is > an authentication problem, I haven't entered > username/password anywhere... Most ISPs don't do authentication for connecting to their SMTP servers. They allow or disallow your connection based on

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
> > On 09 Aug 2001 10:46:58 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to > the > > internet, single workstation. > > > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > > and send internally but can't send

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
What happens if you telnet to your outgoing smtp server on port 25? --mike On 09 Aug 2001 10:46:58 -0700, patrick q wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to the > internet, single workstation. > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to [EMA