Hello Folks,
I have been wrestling with configuring both a web form (web server) and exim4 on the same box, hostname=blackbear. I have exim4 version 4.71 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid listening on port 7396 for web form email (and of course on 25, etc. for the regular stuff). When I test the web form via Firefox on blackbear, I get the following error displayed in the browser (error messages location): "Email sending failed: Could not connect to SMTP host: 127.0.0.1, port: 7396" However, I do not see any entries in the exim4 log files on blackbear. When I send to the same exim4 box (blackbear) from another machine (hostname: snoopy) that is also running the identical web server config, blackbear's exim4 delivers the message to the appropriate local Maildir on blackbear without error. I found the following info at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.71/doc/html/spec_html/ch30.html#SECID146 that says: "allow_localhost Use: smtp Type: boolean Default: false When a host specified in hosts or fallback_hosts (see below) turns out to be the local host, or is listed in hosts_treat_as_local, delivery is deferred by default. However, if allow_localhost is set, Exim goes on to do the delivery anyway. This should be used only in special cases when the configuration ensures that no looping will result (for example, a differently configured Exim is listening on the port to which the message is sent)." I tried different ways to include allow_localhost to solve the issue to no avail. I also have added 127.0.0.1 as an accepted relay host for the acl that accepts web form emails on port 7396. Does anyone know what could be causing such an issue? I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks, JW -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
