Re: [SLUG] Exim Config Help?

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 01:18:05 EST


On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 01:07:12AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:

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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

(You're up too late, my friend ;-)

I'm still fuzzy about your connection. Tell me if this is right:

1. You're using Verizon DSL for access.
2. You're using earthlink's SMTP to send mail.
3. Verizon won't pass the SMTP connection packets on to Earthlink's SMTP
server.

Paul



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