Re: [SLUG] Exim Config Help?

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 01:07:12 EST


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I appreciate this! If only the Exim folk could write manpages/docs that were
as helpful as this, I'd be done in no time. I mentioned in an email just
before (with another title) that I simply added my username and real email
address to the /etc/email-addresses file, like this:
rusty: rhires@earthlink.net
Then it fixed all the headers and such. Having my own address at my own
computer sounds attractive, but I'm thinking that if verizon won't send mail
via smtp, it certainly won't act as a mail exchanger...but I don't understand
enough about all that, anyway...

Now that I've got something that works, I'll play with these settings and see
what happens....

Russell
>
> Hmm. Headers are a little confusing, particularly with all the http
> links in them. Are you sending this via webmail or something?
>
> Anyway, I just finished thrashing Exim about yet again, so I'd be
> interested in seeing your exim.conf. I've got the O'Reilly Exim book,
> which is fairly useful.
>
> If you only can't send to the SLUG list, it really sounds more like a
> problem with NKS's reverse lookups than an Exim problem. Do you host
> your village-smurf domain in your house, and if so, whose nameserver
> points to it? I _just_ finished solving this exact problem. Check that
> the qualify_domain setting in your exim.conf has the domain you're
> subscribed under for the SLUG list. It must be a reverse-lookupable
> name, or NKS will silently drop the mail. You might also want to set
> your qualify_recipient setting is for your local machine, so that local
> unqualified addresses on your machine actually stay local, and aren't
> passed to your remote SMTP server.
>
> Also, here are a couple of tips you can use to see if exim will handle
> your addresses properly. I use these whenever I change anything. I test
> for local addresses, LAN addresses and internet addresses.
>
> To test addresses, issue the following:
>
> /usr/sbin/exim -bt -v -d2 your.address
>
> It will tell you what the ultimate disposition of the piece will be,
> according to how it decodes addresses.
>
> I also have a "loop address" on the internet, not with my ISP, to which
> I send test mail. It resends mail back to me, so I know the
> local-internet-SMTP-internet-local connection works okay.
>
> If you want to watch the actual dialog between your machine and the
> smarthost you're sending mail to, do this:
>
> /usr/sbin/exim -oi -oem -v -d2 -- some.address < testmail
>
> where testmail is a text file you want to send. Note that the -d2
> parameter can be changed to a higher number (up to 9) and will
> consequently become more verbose; it's a debug parameter.
>
> If you need a broad breakdown of the way Exim works, let me know.
>
> Paul

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