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[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I'm having problems recieving mail in debian.  During the install of
> it it asked me questions to configure exim.  I must not have answered
> them right because I can't recieve my test e mails in debian but when
> I boot into mandrake and check my mail they download.  At first I
> could't send mail in debian either till I started messing with
> /etc/exim.conf (after backing it up first) and entered
> omhan1.ne.home.com (my domain) in one of it's lines.  Is there any
> exim users out there who could tell me if I'm on the right track?

I'm a fairly big user of exim, if you haven't read my message to Jason
Ferguson yet :)  Most of what I noted in my other message will work just
as well.  If you need to regenerate your config file, run
/usr/sbin/eximconfig as root.  The script will save your existing
exim.conf as /etc/exim.conf.O, but it might be a good idea to make backups
on your own.

The configuration you're probably looking for is either #1 ("Internet
site") or #2 ("Internet site using smarthost").

> I also checked /var/log/messages for any clues as to what's happening
> and here's what it said
>
> Mar 28 09:38:01 omhan1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[304]: (mail) CMD (  if [ -x
> /usr/sbin/exim
>  -a -f /etc/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1;
> fi).
>
> After looking at this it appears my mail is sent to /dev/null in
> debian, am I even close ? :)

On that, no :)  This is how the command really reads:

if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim.conf ]; then
   /usr/sbin/exim -q > /dev/null 2>&1
fi

It's just an entry in the global crontab to have exim to a queue run, in
order to try to deliver any (as yet) undelivered messages.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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