Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to "viggo" (my local username). It arrived promptly, and I was able to read it. I can not, however, find any file by that name (or any file at all) in my /home/viggo directory (using "dir" from an xterm, one the few recognizable commands to me from way back in them DOS-days). Fetchmail always prompts me for my password to my ISP, but seems to have gotten the ISP's mail-account right (I typed it, but no longer take anything for granted ;-) ). This would indicate to me that I would have to edit my fetchmail-config-file, right?! Oh, well, I must be basically heading in the right direction. I'll do some manpage-reading (great facility, that is) and try to get back with more info. Thanks a lot; I really appreciate it, and X is so beautiful... Regards Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Greg Baker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 17. august 1999 20:34 > Til: Wichmann, Viggo > Cc: [email protected] > Emne: Re: Setting up Exim > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: > > In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id > and > > tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not > too > > difficult, even for a newbie like me. > > Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the modem flickers), > then > > exim, and I get an error something like no mail adresses supplied. How > come? > > I've set up exim at least 5 times, just to make sure, in and out of X, > as > > root and as user, rebooted, all to no avail. > > What am I doing wrong? To the best of my knowledge, I am setting it up > > exactly as the Mail-HOWTO told me. > > First, are you sure local mail is being delivered correctly? Try opening > up your mail program (mutt, elm, pine, xfmail, ...) and sending mail to > your local userid (ie. I would send to 'greg' which is my accound on my > home computer, not 'ggbaker'). If that doesn't work, your problem is with > Exim. > > If it does work, your problem is with fetchmail. I'm not at a computer > with fetchmail, so take this with a grain of salt... You should have a > file in your home directory called .fetchmailrc. Mine looks (as I recall) > something like: > poll my.pop.server > proto POP3 > auth password > user ggbaker > pass mypassword > keep > Have a look at the fetchmail man page. > > Does that do it? > > Greg > > ----------- > "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not > necessarily a good idea." --RFC-1925
