Re: How do I get exim to work?
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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 in your inetd.conf:
>
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
Thank you for replying and no, my inetd.conf did not have that line for
exim. That line looked like this:
# smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd (will be
restored by smail postinst)
and there was no exim-line. The exim installation script seems to be
buggy.
Anyhow, I did put the line you supplied above in inetd.conf and rebooted
the computer because I do not know how to get inetd to read that file
otherwise (later I discovered inetd-update and used it to enable smtp,
but without any positive results).
I then sent a test message to myself locally using mailto. No error
messages appeared, and the file was in /var/spool/exim/input. I tried to
send an test message using Pine but the message was again:
[Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!]
To send this message, I had to remove exim again and reinstall smail.
Johann
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