From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 5:22:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CB137BBE8 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 05:22:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12Nx5P-0008b9-00; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:39 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12Nx5P-000IMJ-00; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:39 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:39 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kevin Havener Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exim question and /etc/hosts question Message-ID: <20000224120939.B26191@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38B4081A.F6E14EE4@afccc.af.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38B4081A.F6E14EE4@afccc.af.mil> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Havener wrote: > If no one can anwer this, I'll take it to the exim mailing list. > > I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, but exim won't deliver it to > my local user(s). In /var/spool/exim/msglog I see this kind of stuff: > >> 2000-02-22 09:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >> 2000-02-22 09:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup >> did not complete add "localhost" to local_domains. > It may be related to poor configuration on my part. I have this cvsup > problem where if I have in my /etc/hosts file: /etc/hosts is nothing to do with this, as it's not really used for mail delivery by Exim. (usually.) > In a larger, more philosophical sense, is there a more straightforward > way to use FreeBSD as a home email device? Exim, sendmail and friends > seem to be overkill for my case. FreeBSD+Exim make a great home mail server for my small network. Sure, Exim might be overkill, but it's a great program and as long as it works I don't see a reason to use anything else. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message