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 close as possible
to that of smailconfig, I tried it out.
The first effort to get mail from the ISP failed with the message that
/etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group or permissions. Then I changed
the permissions to 644 and tried again. Here is a copy of what appeared
on the screen:
Script started on Thu Jun 25 08:27:13 1998
jhspies@Johann(1)$ ses
/home/jhspies/.netrc:1: warning: found "login" before any host names
/home/jhspies/.netrc:2: warning: found "password" before any host names
fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying alpha.futurenet.co.za (protocol POP3) at Thu Jun 25 08:28:01 1998
popclient: POP3< +OK IMS POP3 Server 0.87 Ready <3087552.898788687.249@alpha.futurenet.co.za>
popclient: POP3> USER jhspies
popclient: POP3< +OK jhspies is welcome here
popclient: POP3> PASS *
popclient: POP3< +OK jhspies's mailbox has 9 message(s) (86582 octets)
popclient: POP3> STAT
popclient: POP3< +OK 9 86582
popclient: POP3> LAST
popclient: POP3< +OK 0
popclient: 9 messages at jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za.
popclient: POP3> RETR 1
popclient: POP3< +OK 5698 octets
reading message 1 (5698 bytes)
popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed
popclient: POP3> QUIT
popclient: POP3< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
popclient: SMTP transaction error while fetching from alpha.futurenet.co.za
fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
ppp0 link terminated
1998-06-25 08:28:04 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong
owner, group, or mode
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At this stage I changed the permissions of /etc/exim.conf to 644 and tried
again with the following result:
/home/jhspies/.netrc:1: warning: found "login" before any host names
/home/jhspies/.netrc:2: warning: found "password" before any host names
fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying alpha.futurenet.co.za (protocol POP3) at Thu Jun 25 08:30:43 1998
popclient: POP3< +OK IMS POP3 Server 0.87 Ready <3093808.898788849.462@alpha.futurenet.co.za>
popclient: POP3> USER jhspies
popclient: POP3< +OK jhspies is welcome here
popclient: POP3> PASS *
popclient: POP3< +OK jhspies's mailbox has 9 message(s) (86582 octets)
popclient: POP3> STAT
popclient: POP3< +OK 9 86582
popclient: POP3> LAST
popclient: POP3< +OK 0
popclient: 9 messages at jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za.
popclient: POP3> RETR 1
popclient: POP3< +OK 5698 octets
reading message 1 (5698 bytes)
popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed
popclient: POP3> QUIT
popclient: POP3< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
popclient: SMTP transaction error while fetching from alpha.futurenet.co.za
fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
ppp0 link terminated
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About two years ago, when I was a total newcomer to Linux, I could install
smail and use it. I have now after about 6 efforts not be able to install
exim successfully.
Can somebody help me, please?
In the mean time, I am going back to smail now.
Johann.
PS. When I tried to send this message I got the message
[Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!]
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| Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 |
| jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za 3201 Pietermaritzburg |
| Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) |
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commandment with promise; That it may be well with
thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth."
Ephesians 6:2,3
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