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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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