Re: How do I get exim to work?

Thanks George, I nearly got exim to work. But after waisting another 6 hours I do not know how further. I can now receive messages from the ISP into the /var/spool/exim/input directory and read them there with emacs. Mail rarely gets through to /var/spool/mail/jhspies and when that happens, I

Re: How do I get exim to work?

Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I cannot get it working for a basic system. I have fetchmail feeding

How do I get exim to work?

I am trying to get exim to work, but without success. I would appreciate some help. My hostname is Johann. My ISP-domain is alpha.futurenet.co.za. I have a single PC with a dialup ppp-connection and fetchmail. My username is jhspies on both the localhost and at the ISP. If I answer the

Re: How do I get exim to work?

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: As root exim -bp shows the queue. I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some messages. This is because you are running as user, and you do not have

Re: How do I get exim to work?

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: As root exim -bp shows the queue. I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some messages. This is because you are running as user, and you do not

Re: How do I get exim to work?

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Which version ? Hamm or bo ? 1.3.1 Do you have a permanent connection or a dial-up ? dial-up. How does exim.conf look ? I re-installed exim to get exim.conf again. I made some progress. I do not know what I did differently, but

Re: How do I get exim to work?

-- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following

Re: How do I get exim to work?

-- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the

How do I get exim to work?

Hallo, After a discussion on this list some time ago on exim, I decided to try out exim once again and once again I could not get it to work. I use Debian 1.3.1. I have a dialup system and use fetchmail an procmail normally with smail. After running eximconfig and answering the questions as

Re: How do I get exim to work?

popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following in your inetd.conf: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtpstream tcp