George, I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I too decided to set up mail using the LG tutorial. My goal was to be able to use Netscape Mail to read and compose messages. All I did (after completing the tutorial) was make my local machine my smtp and pop3 server. Netscape would pull mail from /var/spool/mail.mwagnon successfully...I was stoked. But when I tried to send a message, I couldn't. I can't remember the exact error message (and I'm not logged into my Debian box at the moment), but I think it may have been related to not being able to relay the message. Would adding 127.0.0.1 to my exim.conf file fix that? I didn't elect to relay mail when setting up exim because I don't have a network at the moment (my other system PS died and I haven't gotten around to replacing it :) ). This is exciting.
tia Mark Wagnon Chula Vista, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Fetchmail and Exim - CRACKED IT!! > > > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 300 > > # >> Option rewritten by convert4r3 > > host_reject = "! 192.168.1.0/24 : \ > > ! 194.217.242.0/24 : \ > > *" > > > > No idea why it is there, but I remmed it out and now exim works fine!!!! > > Ok, that is just to allow connections from 192.168.1.0/24 and > 194.217.242.0/24 but to refuse all others. Trouble is that ! 127.0.0.1 was > not listed so since it is not in 192.168.1.0/24 or 194.217.242.0/24, it > was refused connectivity.
