> You don't want to telnet to localhost, because localhost > is "local" and therefore (possibly) treated differently. > > Do your tests by telnetting to the internetface that > you normally receive your email at (from the same box > is not problem; just telnet mail.real.domain 25 should do).
I'm not sure to what interface you refer. In my /etc/hosts I have: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com hartford-hwp.com teufel On my older machines I always gave my machine an IP address as if I were on a network: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel but the new Etch installation never asked me for it and so I'm using 127.0.1.1, which I hope suffices. I tried to telnet to 127.0.1.1, but telnet hangs, and exim4's mail log says "lookup of host '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' failed in smarthost router" An embarassing question: I understand that my ISP mail server is a smart host, but is this saying my local host is a smart host as well? Am I running a mail server? I'm using a hardware firewall, and so when I do # ipconfig -a, my eth1 interface is 192.168.111.2, which is the address I use with the firewall. Telnet can't find any hostname for that address, and exim4 main log says: "rejected RCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: relay not permitted". Same thing happens when I telnet to my domain name. Another embarassing question: my local host should not be set up for relaying, and so why am I getting "relay not permitted" error messages? Haines -- Haines Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Haines Brown's Profile: http://www.exim-users.org/forums/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=269 View this thread: http://www.exim-users.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=54837 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
