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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:39 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Exim question and /etc/hosts question
Message-ID:  <20000224120939.B26191@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <38B4081A.F6E14EE4@afccc.af.mil>
References:  <38B4081A.F6E14EE4@afccc.af.mil>

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Kevin Havener wrote:

> If no one can anwer this, I'll take it to the exim mailing list.
> 
> I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, but exim won't deliver it to
> my local user(s). In /var/spool/exim/msglog I see this kind of stuff:
> 
>> 2000-02-22 09:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached
>> 2000-02-22 09:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup 
>>        did not complete

add "localhost" to local_domains.

> It may be related to poor configuration on my part.  I have this cvsup
> problem where if I have in my /etc/hosts file:

/etc/hosts is nothing to do with this, as it's not really used for mail
delivery by Exim. (usually.)

> In a larger, more philosophical sense, is there a more straightforward
> way to use FreeBSD as a home email device?  Exim, sendmail and friends
> seem to be overkill for my case.

FreeBSD+Exim make a great home mail server for my small network. Sure, Exim
might be overkill, but it's a great program and as long as it works I don't
see a reason to use anything else.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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