From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 13:21:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (janus.afccc.af.mil [209.22.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C842837B884 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:21:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil) Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (root@localhost) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id VAA04787 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:21:35 GMT Received: from thor.afccc.af.mil (thor.afccc.af.mil [209.22.31.24]) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id VAA04783 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:21:35 GMT Received: from afccc.af.mil (olasun7.afccc.af.mil [209.22.31.56]) by thor.afccc.af.mil with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1P8NSLRM; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:18:21 -0500 Message-ID: <38B6F221.98CECB06@afccc.af.mil> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:20:33 -0500 From: Kevin Havener X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exim question and /etc/hosts question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst gave me the right answer for this. Thanks Ben, I can't believe it was so simple. As much as I looked at the exim configure file, I can't believe I couldn't figure this one out myself after a week! Works like a charm now. Now that I've spent so much time with exim, I kind of like it. Still don't know what bugs cvsup and why changing the /etc/hosts file changes its behavior. ====================== Ben's answer ============================ > > 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. =======================End Ben's answer========================== Steve Hovey wrote: > > Do you have a localhost entry in your /etc/hosts file? > Not a player in the exim problem, but... Yes, changing it from: 127.0.0.1 localhost #cvsup fails, sendmail worked fine to: 127.0.0.1 freebsd localhost #cvsup worked, sendmail stalled Haven't experimented yet to see how exim peforms on boot-up with the cvsup-friendly /etc/hosts yet. Thanks for the responses guys, Kevin Havener To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message