Re: Smail help needed from newbie
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays in local machine, and gets bounced back to user who sent it. I did try exim but had exactly the same problem, so installed smail instead.
RE: Smail help needed from newbie
Abdul, I had a similar problem with exim. It complained about relaying mail when I tried to send mail through it using Outlook on a networked PC. I would recommend re-running exim.conf. Try selecting another option at the first question, server type. This took care of the problem for me. -paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Abdul Aziz Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 1:25 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Smail help needed from newbie Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays in local machine, and gets bounced back to user who sent it. I did try exim but had exactly the same problem, so installed smail instead. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Smail help needed from newbie
How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. BTW I use exim instead of smail, and it works like a charm. On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:16:53PM +, Abdul Aziz wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian and am trying to get smail working (using Elm) on 2.1 Slink - standard install from CD's. I keep getting the message cannot parse fully qualified domain. I filled in the name of my ISP (lineone.net) for the smarthost part of the config (I also tried smtp.lineone.net which got the same message). I'm a bit lost, here as you'll see straightaway. I have the DNS of the ISP in /etc/resolv.conf and can connect OK to the net and send e-mail from netscape (please help me get smail working!). Any information to get me on the right track much appreciated - or point me to some info. I've read the man, which didn't mean much to me, and the docs in /usr/doc - ditto. Is the smarthost my ISP and do I have to configure another file or files somewhere to get smail working? Thanks. -- I already have all the latest software. -- Laura Winslow, Family Matters Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpTYyvBVuX2l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Smail help needed from newbie
Hi, I'm new to Debian and am trying to get smail working (using Elm) on 2.1 Slink - standard install from CD's. I keep getting the message cannot parse fully qualified domain. I filled in the name of my ISP (lineone.net) for the smarthost part of the config (I also tried smtp.lineone.net which got the same message). I'm a bit lost, here as you'll see straightaway. I have the DNS of the ISP in /etc/resolv.conf and can connect OK to the net and send e-mail from netscape (please help me get smail working!). Any information to get me on the right track much appreciated - or point me to some info. I've read the man, which didn't mean much to me, and the docs in /usr/doc - ditto. Is the smarthost my ISP and do I have to configure another file or files somewhere to get smail working? Thanks.
