On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:26:22PM -0700, esoR ocsirF wrote: > I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my ISP assigned email address. I have also set > up exim to think that my personal machine is eou.edu ( If I understand > the setup ). I run fetchmail to retrieve my mail and use mutt to read > it.
You're right > Appended are the conf files for exim and fetchmail. I like how it You're not obliged to use fetchmail, unless you automatically retrieve your mail. I use the Mutt conf files to do this (take a look at the very last lines for the POP3 setup lines). > behaves except in one respect, I can't send mail to other users of the > domain eou.edu because exim thinks that is localhost, other wise mail > goes out just fine ( for example this message). Can anybody tell > me a way to get exim to pass any locally unqualified address ( ie. no > account on my machine ) to eou.edu ( the real one) automatically? :) I had the same PB: your "local_domains" is not good: you must set it to the name *you* gave to the machine. see below > I have read the article in Linux Gazzette #43 and tried it but it didn't > offer the same degree of transparency that I am attempting. I have also > attempted to read through the exim docs but overwhelmed with the amount > of info. Any help would be greatly appreciated. No, it is not intended to be used on a single machine, but on a little net. > .fetchmailrc > > set daemon 120 > poll emily.eou.edu proto POP3 port 110 > user "rosef" there password "mypass" is rosef here > fetchall -------------------------- These are the setup differences from my old exim.conf, perhaps its not the best in the world, but it worked pretty good. (I used it on a single machine, before having a little network and turn to a La Gazette #43 variant) This is based on a 2.05-2 EXIM -------------------------- > ... > local_domains = localhost:eou.edu local_domains = mycomp.mydomain > ... > host_lookup = * host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0 > ... > host_accept_relay = localhost *NOTHING* > ... > smtp_verify = true My ISP doesn't use it, so it was false for me (check it out with him). > ... > local_delivery: > driver = appendfile > group = mail > mode = 0660 > mode_fail_narrower = false X envelope_to_add = true I didn't had this line (but remember my version is 2.05-2) > file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} > ... > system_aliases: > driver = aliasfile X file_transport = address_file X pipe_transport = address_pipe I didn't had these 2 lines, just "file = /etc/aliases" instead > file = /etc/aliases > search_type = lsearch > ... > lookuphost: > driver = lookuphost > transport = remote_smtp I had another line here (obviously, my ISP's name was "wanadoo.fr"): route_list = "* smtp.wanadoo.fr bynds_a" > ... > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > # {$value}fail} bcfrF As my address was not good (I was appearing as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the From: header, instead of my *real* address, which is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; So I rewriten the envelope to have a correct email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eh > # End of Exim configuration file Hope it can help. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.