Re: How do I get exim to work?
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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)
This is commented out line, and methinks there was a bug conserning this
looong time ago.
That line means that when an smtp connection attempt is approved,
inetd shall start that mailer.
>> and there was no exim-line. The exim installation script seems to be
>> buggy.
Which version ? Hamm or bo ?
>> 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!]
Do you have a permanent connection or a dial-up ?
How does exim.conf look ?
>> To send this message, I had to remove exim again and reinstall smail.
>>
>> Johann
>>
>>
>>
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